There is a nationwide campaign being driven by the media to undermine ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug used regularly for both humans and animals, as a treatment for COVID-19. It is similar to the debate over hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug touted by former President Donald Trump in the early days of the pandemic, in that no one actually knows whether the drug works against COVID-19 or not.

However, the media have convinced themselves that they know better than the doctors prescribing ivermectin to their coronavirus patients. Headline after headline dismisses ivermectin as a “horse dewormer” or “livestock medicine” and suggests the coronavirus patients seeking out the drug are mindless idiots. A fact these articles conveniently fail to mention is that ivermectin is also a Nobel Prize-winning “wonder drug” regularly prescribed to human beings for a variety of reasons.