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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) laughs when asked if she feels any responsibility for the deaths caused by her vaccine misinformation.Photo: Screenshot

Conspiracy theorist and Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent part of her weekend sowing doubts about COVID-19 vaccines, even though her home state currently ranks sixth amongst states with the highest number of overall infections.

Over the last 24 hours, Greene has reposted two messages against vaccine mandates. Ever since the Food and Drug Administration gave its full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, more workplaces have been requiring their employees to get vaccinated.

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Displeased with this development, Greene has taken to spreading anti-vax messages.

Her first was a retweet of Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a man who spends his time railing against mask mandates and suggesting that taxpayers should fund research into Ivermectin, a veterinary medicine that has been found to have no effect on COVID-19.

Like I have been saying for months, Pauls tweet said, denying the role and value of natural immunity is a serious mistake, and it is not science. Its government propaganda for vaccine mandates, even for those with natural immunity.

His tweet linked to a Bloomberg News article that said that people who recovered from COVID-19 earlier into the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the Delta variant than those who got two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Despite the articles claim, the only way that people can develop this natural immunity now is to risk dying from a super infectious respiratory virus that has already killed 637,000 Americans.

Greene also retweeted a message from Republican Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie which stated, Natural Immunity >> Pfizer Shot. The vaccine mandates are unscientific for two reasons: 1) they do not recognize immunity from prior infection 2) SARS-CoV2 can be spread by vaccinated people so whats really going on?

Whether he realized it or not, Massie essentially made an argument for employees being forced to take antibody tests. Also, his second claim about coronavirus being spread by vaccinated people is old news. People inoculated against any diseases are still capable of contracting the diseases and spreading them to others. Vaccinations only reduce the possibility of doing so and lower the severity of those diseases symptoms as well.

This isnt news. Its just how vaccines work.

Its unsurprising that Greene opposes vaccine mandates. Foremost, thats generally the Republican position. Secondly, she has disingenuously said in the past that instead of convincing people to get vaccinated, COVID-19 prevention efforts should focus on reducing obesity. Obesity is a risk factor for being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19. She has also compared vaccination volunteers with the Nazi secret police, and joked that people could threaten them with guns.

In fact, Greene compares COVID-19 mask and vaccination mandates to Nazi during the Holocaust so often that the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. had to issue a letter telling politicians like her to stop making such disrespectful and inaccurate comparisons.

As of August 29, Georgia has reported 1.34 million overall infections and 21,826 related COVID-19 deaths. Those numbers make the state rank sixth in the U.S. for new infections and eighth for deaths. The states recent daily tolls of new cases have been so high that theyve broken its previous records for most new cases reported in a single day.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene rails against vaccines as COVID-19 infections spike in her home state - LGBTQ Nation

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COLD SPRING, Kentucky Hatred of former President Donald Trump has kept researchers from looking into the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin andother drugs to treat COVID-19, Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told constituents on Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control have warned people using ivermectin,a drug used to treat parasitic worm infections in humans and livestock, is dangerous. The FDA went as far as tweeting out a reminderon August 21, "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it."

But Paul encouraged more research.

"The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they're unwilling to objectively study it," Paul said to the 60 people squeezed into the Cold Spring CityCouncil chambers in this Northern Kentucky suburb just south of Cincinnati."So someone like me that's in the middle on it, I can't tell you because they will not study ivermectin. They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump."

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It's also why they don't research hydroxychloroquine, he said, an anti-malarial drug touted by Trump as a treatment.

The World Health Organizationin April foundbased on six clinical trials thathydroxychloroquine"had little or no effect on preventing illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19."

A woman in the audience had asked Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist, why ivermectin wasn't more available.The woman said she had some ivermectin stashed away "just in case."

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Paul told her he didn't know if it works because there isn't enough research.When asked by The Enquirer after the meetings about the FDA and CDC warnings on ivermectin, Paul reiterated what he said in the town hall

"I don't know if it works, but I keep an open mind," Paul said.

One treatment Paul and the nation's top infectious disease expert agree on is monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 in the early stages of the infection.But other than that, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Paul don't get along and have had very public clashes over the nation's COVID-19 response.

Paul spent a large portion of the town hall criticizing vaccine and mask mandates. Paul encouraged older people to get vaccinated but said it's a personal choice. Those who already had COVID-19, like Paul who contracted the disease last year,don't need it, Paul said.

A study published in early August by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionfoundunvaccinated people who have had COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with the virus compared with people who were fully vaccinated after contracting the virus.

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Paul did encourage older people to get vaccinated but maintained his stance that it's personal choice and shouldn't be mandated.

"I think I'm in the middle ground of the vaccines," Paul said. "CNN invites me on all the time. They have announcers calling me an 'ass' on TV. Then they have doctors saying I'm thoroughly anti-vaccine. You heard me, I'm not against the vaccine. I've already recommended if you're at risk to take it...It's still your choice if its a free country."

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Rand Paul undecided on Ivermectin to treat COVID-19, says hatred of Trump hinders research - The Cincinnati Enquirer

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Explaining that it was taking the action out of an abundance of caution, the Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn its approval from whatever drug Rand Paul is on.

The agency emphasized that it did not know what drug the senator was taking, or whether he was taking any drug at all, but asserted that it was withdrawing its approval out of a concern for public safety.

If, in fact, Rand Paul is on something, we want to protect the American people from experiencing the same side effects that he appears to be exhibiting, such as irrationality, irritability, and difficulty processing information, an F.D.A. spokesperson said.

The F.D.A.s action drew a swift rebuke from Paul, who accused the agency of overreach and declared, This is my brain on no drugs whatsoever.

Responding to the Kentucky senators statement, the F.D.A. said that it was reversing its earlier decision but would refer Paul for further clinical study.

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F.D.A. Withdraws Approval from Whatever Drug Rand Paul Is On - The New Yorker

MOREHEAD Sen. Rand Paul visited the Rajant Corporation in Morehead to tour its facility and speak about its expanding operations.

Paul spoke with Rajant owner Bob Schema and other employees about the technology they have created and their link to Morehead. Paul said Rajants location in Morehead is great for Kentucky since many young engineers study at Morehead State University and no longer have to travel to other states to find work.

I think its exciting for Kentucky but also exciting as sort of a symbiotic relationship with Morehead State because youve got these young people that are many of them, most of them Kentuckians that are smart engineers being hired at a tech company and its right here, said Paul.

Schema agreed with Dr. Pauls view on the connection between Rajant and Morehead State, and said being able to hire recent graduates to allow them to stay close to family is one of the best things about their location.

Were very family-oriented and one of the things I noticed when I came down here in 2016 was the intense relationship, multi-generational relationship here and the impact that allowing young folks with engineering to stay here, what (impact) thats had on families has been one of the nicest parts of being able to have jobs here, said Schema.

Paul discussed the benefits of having communications companies like Rajant within the United States as opposed to outsourcing to countries like China or Taiwan, and said he would like to see more technology made within the country.

Ive been talking to my staff for a couple months now trying to figure out what kind of legislation we could do with chips and pharmaceuticals and/or more, maybe even a broader array of things and try to get those things done in our country, said Paul.

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Representative Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, on Friday appeared to speak in support of unproven treatments for COVID-19, including ivermectin, a drug that's often used as a dewormer for cows and horses.

"I don't know if y'all saw, but a month after president Trump left office the American Journal of Medicine came out with a great article that they had discovered a regimen of medication that, when taken together early in COVID, that you may have heard of it hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, Z-Pak, azithromycin, zinc," Gohmert said during a speech at the Texas Youth Summit Friday night.

Gohmert's comments were met with cheers from the audience.

The Food and Drug Administration has said ivermectin should not be used to treat or prevent COVID-19, and that it has received "multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."

The FDA notes that ivermectin tablets "are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea." But it specifies that ivermectin is not a drug for treating viruses.

During his remarks on Friday, Gohmert also praised former President Donald Trump for "getting the government out of the way enough" so that COVID-19 vaccines could be developed quickly.

But he also raised some concerns about COVID vaccines.

"The trouble is, these vaccines, they were only approved for emergency use. Now you have Pfizer that's been approved, but there's so much long term they don't know," Gohmert said.

"And now that the pandemic is under more control," he added, "we need to get back to our freedom of saying ,'Look, here's my preexisting conditions, let's talk about which one I should take, if I should even take one.'"

In a story that aired on the Houston TV station KTRK on Wednesday, a Texas doctor said he had used ivermectin to treat thousands of COVID-19 patients.

The doctor, Joseph Varon, said that drug used in combination with other COVID therapies is effective.

"It's not just ivermectin," he said.

"That's where people get confused. Ivermectin helps you, but it helps you when you are giving it in addition to other components of treatment protocols that are out there."

Varon said that he hadn't seen "a single significant side-effect" from the drug.

On Friday, Senator Rand Paul claimed that "hatred for Trump" hindered research into ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, saying researchers were "unwilling to objectively study it."

Earlier this month, the FDA tweeted about ivermectin, "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it."

Gohmert's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Newsweek on Saturday morning.

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