Commentary
The month, as I recall, was December and the year 2021 in the thick of the COVID crisis with the Delta variant in circulation. In New England, there was no way to get Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, or any other off-label drug for the virus apart from vitamins. For reasons still unexplained, they had been removed from the shelves. Even with a prescription, you could not buy these therapeutics.
