Source on that? All I can find is a spike in calls, often framed by the headline as a large percentage increase in total ivermectin related calls, but the actual numbers of poisonings are trivial. As in 5 per year increasing to 16 or 17 being reported breathlessly as "245% increase in ivermectin related calls..." blah blah blah. It's statistically irrelevant. Even if it all happened in a single day it hardly seems like a busy afternoon for poison hotline agents.

Ivermectin has been politicized and the narrative is that idiot flyover state citizens are "overwhelming" various systems, but this is demonstrably false. It plays to the sneering smugness and self righteous outrage that seems the preferred political prod of late.

I personally know at least 5 people that bought the horse version of Ivermectin because of Joe Rogan podcast.

They haven't taken it yet and they told me if they get COVID they will take it. Which they assume will eventually happen since they are not planning to get vaccinated.

Feed store in red state are ordering ~20 boxes of Horse ivermectin each week and are still running out.