Doctors are being pushed by some of their patients to prescribe Ivermectin, despite it being an "unproven" medication for COVID-19. Arthur Caplan, the director of the division of medical ethics at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, explains to CBSN's Lana Zak why this drug is dangerous and how some doctors are feeding into misinformation.
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