“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “officially recommends administering ivermectin as presumptive therapy (giving medication without a diagnosis) to refugees.”
What FactCheck.org found
The CDC recommends the use of ivermectin as a treatment for arriving refugees to treat parasitic infections, not COVID-19.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Dr. Simone Gold (-) made this claim around 4 September 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 September 2021, 13 days later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
Dr. Simone Gold has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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