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Facebook Post Misleads on NIH’s Position on Ivermectin - The Atlanta Voice

SciCheck Digest The National Institutes of Health has notrecommended and the Food and Drug Administration has not approved ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. But a Facebook post misleadingly implies that an article published on the NIH website is an endorsement of the drug to treat COVID-19. The NIH and FDA have said more clinical studies […]

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