It is difficult to access orthodox pharmaceuticals, many immigrants in the United States have to rely on expensive, unwanted drugs to treat Covid-19.

On April afternoon, the vegetables, clothes and phone charger at the largest flea market of the city of Fresno, California, also sells the recommended prescription drugs to treat Covid-

The seller costs $ 25 for a dose of steroid injections Dexamethasone, some types of antibiotics and anti-parasitic drugs Ivermectin.

A stall at Fresno flea market, State Clifornia, USA.

Health agencies and consumer protections have been repeatedly warned that the remedies are like above, as well as the transmission of vitamins or expensive peptide therapy due to clinics specializing in alternative treatments provided with prices

But these methods, often promoted by doctors and companies on social networks, attracted the attention of many people in the low-income migrant community in the United States.

The fact that people who live below the poverty line must spend a large amount of money for Covid-19 treatments that have not been shown to be disappointing reality but not surprisingly, Rais Vohra, Fresno County Medical Agency leader, receiving

This is not something too new.

Vohra and several colleagues then went to the market, looking for three small stores and discovered 35 drugs only sold when there was a single or pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical management agency (FDA) listed on the list of unsafe drugs

During the epidemic period, many immigrants cannot access government health services, to find such underground markets in the hope of being able to cure Covid-19.

On the other hand, many immigrants showed no trust in doctors who did not speak their language or behave rudely, curtly with them.

When Covid-19, many immigrants choose to treat penicillin themselves, other antibiotics or vitamin mixtures with herbal therapy purchased from unreliable sources.

A woman in Fresno recently shared with New York Times her husband's story fought with Covid-19.

She gave her husband to a clinic where the doctor treated with a peptide injection method.

I was shocked but trying to make everything fine because I had to be strong because my husband and children, she said.

Some non-licensed drugs can be very dangerous.

The delay treatment is a reason for the death rate of Covid-19 in the group of colored people and the Spanish people higher than the white people in the US.

Unable or unwilling to talk with orthodox medical service providers, some people turn to search for advice on Facebook, WhatsApp or YouTube.

The drugs are sold in a stall in Fresno flea market.

On the Facebook Covid-19 Recipes and Home Remedies page with 10,000 members, people often share healing tips by mixing herbal, zinc, vitamin B12, Ivermectin and chlorine dioxide.

Alternative therapies also potentially reduce the treatment of doctors for patients due to concerns about harmful drug interactions, Dr. Kathleen Page, infectious disease expert at Baltimore Medical School,

Non-papers from Mexico or Central America must enter the emergency science at her hospital often said they used home treatments, vitamins and antibiotics before looking for Cham

I'm not angry when the patient tells me about the spontaneous methods they have applied, page says.