“COVID cases in India plummet after government promotes ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine use.”
What PolitiFact found
India's COVID-19 cases began to drop only after a nearly vertical spike. Neither drug is approved in the US for COVID-19. The FDA and the World Health Organization recommend not using them to prevent or treat the virus.
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In short
Gateway Pundit (Conservative website) made this claim around 17 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 May 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Gateway Pundit has 22 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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