Make room, Rolling Stone magazine. You have competition for the shoddiest news coverage of ivermectin use amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The New York Times reported a startling statistic in late August [emphasis added]: “Calls to poison control centers about ivermectin exposures have risen dramatically, jumping fivefold over their baseline in July, according to C.D.C. researchers, who cited data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Mississippi’s health department said earlier this month that 70 percent of recent calls to the state poison control center had come from people who ingested ivermectin from livestock supply stores.”