QAnon Republican cadres made a front group called America's Frontline Doctors which has been spreading massive amounts of misinformation about the plague across social media. So in poorer countries who lack access to vaccines there have been bizarre studies into potential treatments as long shot desperation moves. AFD picked up an Egyptian study about the efficacy of Ivermectin on treating COVID, a study that was later shown to have fabricated its statistics and debunked. This caused an explosion in demand for Imervectin but since it is not commercially available for humans people went after the paste made for horses.