Joe Rogan has forced CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, to admit that the network knowingly telling willing lies about ivermectin, a drug he used to successfully treat his own case of COVID.
Last month, Rogan announced he fell ill on August 28, during the Florida leg of his live tour. He told his Instagram followers that he took Ivermectin along with monoclonal antibodies, Z-pack antibiotics and a vitamin drip for three days and that he felt great.
The announcement kicked off a flurry of criticism for the popular podcaster, who signed a deal with streaming service Spotify worth a reported $100 million last year.
Dr Fauci, Biden’s medical advisor, went on CNN and said that Rogan took the ‘livestock dewormer ivermectin,’ adding that it ‘doesn’t have any effect on COVID, obviously,’ according to Yahoo News.
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Rogan has previously railed against vaccines and vaccine mandates, saying that young and healthy people don’t need to be jabbed. On Wednesday, he also revealed that he was nearly vaccinated in Las Vegas a few months ago but missed his appointment, according to Newsweek.
Rogan slammed the network for ‘lying’ by saying he took ‘horse dewormer,’ despite the fact that his Ivermectin pills, which are used widely around the world, were prescribed by a doctor.
Dr Sanjay Gupta appeared on the star’s Spotify podcast on Wednesday to discuss Ivermectin’s use as a COVID-19 treatment and after a tense back-and-forth, Gupta eventually agreed that the anti-parasite drug, which was prescribed to Rogan by a doctor, should never have been repeatedly described on CNN as a horse dewormer.
Former UFC commentator and Spotify star, Rogan, 54, drew criticism from Dr Anthony Fauci when he revealed he took the drug in an Instagram video last month.
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Studies have shown that Ivermectin decreases viral loads and may prevent COVID deaths, but the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control recommend against using it for COVID, saying better studies are needed.
Gupta pointed to what he called a ‘snarky’ tweet by the FDA telling people they are ‘not a horse,’ seemingly comparing it to his CNN colleagues’ statements.
“A drug that has been shown to stop viral replication in vitro – you know that, right? Why would they lie and say that’s horse dewormer? I can afford people’s medicine, motherf*****. This is ridiculous,’ Rogan said, prompting Gupta to laugh.
Rogan went on to criticize mainstream media for pushing a false narrative about Ivermectin, a broad-spectrum, anti-parasitic ‘wonder drug’ taken by 250 million people a year, according to a 2015 Nobel lecture.
Gupta, 51, is a practicing neurosurgeon and professor at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. He attended the University of Michigan medical school and joined CNN in 2001.
Ivermectin was discovered from soil samples collected in Japan by microbiologist Satoshi Ōmura in 1970, according to the journal Trends in Parasitology.
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Ōmura won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 along with American biologist William C. Campbell, of the pharmaceutical company Merck.
Ivermectin, available in human and animal concentrations, is used by 250 million people a year. Studies show it helps reduce viral load, but health experts say more research is needed.