Emails we obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control show that an influential August 26 national health alert on ivermectin was spurred, like the FDA tweet, by a sliver of evidence: just three cases of alleged ivermectin side effects, two involving animal formulations.
In view of ivermectin's well-established safety profile, our request for CDC documents under the Freedom of Information Act sought the rationale for the health alert and specifically asked for the data CDC used from the American Association of Poison Control Centers, to which state centers report.
The data might have specified, for example, just how many calls were related either to animal or human formulations; the alert instead lumps all reports together, making it difficult to fathom the extent of livestock ivermectin use.
The New Mexico Department of Health has yet to respond to any questions about why a straightforward correction was not made to the media early on regarding the two deaths that were erroneously attributed to ivermectin.
The CDC emails suggest it took very little to convince the agency to issue a national warning about the use of ivermectin.
FDA claimed last March to have "Received multiple reports" of injury and hospitalization after people took livestock ivermectin.
CDC officials referenced the FDA "Consumer warning" when planning their own contribution to the myth of ivermectin harm.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-31-ivermectin-lies-that-outlives-the-truth.html
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