NPR has yet to issue a retraction of the fake story, which was circulated countless times, while the retraction will only be seen by a fraction of those who read the original.
Falsely claimed 70% of calls to Mississippi Poison Control Center were about ivermectin
Source: Paul Joseph Watson
The Associated Press was forced to issue a correction after it falsely claimed that 70 per cent of calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were about people ingesting ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
The actual number was 2 per cent.
Whoops!
From theAP:
“In an article published Aug. 23, 2021, about people taking livestock medicine to try to treat coronavirus, The Associated Press erroneously reported based on information provided by the Mississippi Department of Health that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were from people who had ingested ivermectin to try to treat COVID-19. State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said Wednesday the number of calls to poison control about ivermectin was about 2%. He said of the calls that were about ivermectin, 70% were by people who…
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It is no coincidence that they won’t lose any advertisers over fake life and death health news either.
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I would call that an understatement, Bone Fish.
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Why do people not mind being told fake news?
Why are people not told that they definitely should not take ivermectin that is produced for treatment in animals, but that it is alright, to take ivermectin that is produced for humans, preferably under competent medical supervision?
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Ivermectin was not produced for treatment in animals, Aunty. That is fake news. Ivermectin was first developed for treatment of malaria, river blindness and other parasites, and it’s widely used in Third World countries for this purpose. The scientists who first synthesized it won the Nobel Prize in 2015: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297521000883
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Thanks for the info, Stuart.:-)
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