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Dr. Bryan Ardis tells his viewers that there is a cheap and effective drug approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that can treat a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) infection: ivermectin. [...]
PolitiFact's ruling: Mostly False Here's why: On May 17, the New York Times reported that the coronavirus crisis was so severe in India, with about 23 million infections confirmed, that the country was accounting for more than half of the world’s daily COVID-19 cases. The same day, The Gateway Pundit posted a story suggesting that two drugs — both of which have drawn warnings from U.S. and global public health officials not to be used for COVID-19 — were having dramatic effects in India. The headline, widely shared on Facebook, read: "Elites Worried: COVID Cases in India Plummet...