By Selwyn Duke

So intense is the media’s hate affair with COVID-19 treatments ivermectin (IVM) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) that it will actually peddle untruths to discredit them. The latest example is a Mediaite attack on renowned doctor Ben Carson for stating the medications “are effective treatments for Covid-19,” a proposition for which there’s “an utter lack of evidence,” the site wrote.

In fact, Mediaite cited a research paper in an attempt to discredit Carson’s assertions, claiming the study didn’t mention IVM and HCQ as possibly having a mitigatory effect on COVID. Yet in reality, the paper actually did thus cite the two medications.

What’s more and contrary to Mediaite’s “utter lack” claim, the researchers did say that evidence for the drugs’ effectiveness existed.

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