(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A sign requiring masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus is posted on a store front in Philadelphia, on Feb. 16, 2022. The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Erie County, PA) Seven lawmakers in Pennsylvania that represent the Republican party want to have availability over the counter for ivermectin, a drug that became a treatment for COVID-19. State Representative Jake Banta of Erie County and six others are in support of their bill which is similar to a bill from state Senator Doug Mastriano. In a memo by Banta, he noted that his mother was cured in 2020 from COVID-19 within four days of taking ivermectin.