On Jimmy Dore’s YouTube, Max Blumenthal promotes anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19

Right-wing YouTuber Jimmy Dore claimed on the May 19 edition of The Jimmy Dore Show that the CDC easing its COVID-19 guidelines is contradictory.

The CDC is recommending people don’t wear masks indoors if completely vaccinated, due to “improving case and death figures after a year of vaccine development.”

But Dore framed wearing a mask fully vaccinated as going against the science and “being an anti-vaxer,” falsely accusing Rachel Maddow of being anti-vax for wearing a mask while vaccinated, leaving out key, scientific facts reported by The Cleveland Clinic and Media Matters.

• It takes time for the vaccine to kick in.
• The vaccines do not provide 100% protection.
• Those who have been vaccinated might be asymptomatic spreaders.
• We still need to protect those with compromised immune systems and those who can’t be vaccinated.
• There are still limited doses of the vaccine.

From the CDC: People with immunocompromising conditions, including those taking immunosuppressive medications and those who can’t be vaccinated.

Health experts hope the new CDC guidelines incentivize people to get vaccinated to avoid having to wear a mask in certain areas.

To be clear, you still have to wear a mask in hospitals, airports and bus stations, public transportation, restaurants, and at work, per a federal mask mandate.

Max Blumenthal, a right-wing Assadist, espoused COVID-19 misinformation and right-wing anti-lockdown views, as well as anti-vaccine rhetoric throughout Dore’s program, lamenting that Governor Ron DeSantis’ panel discussion was erased by YouTube for questioning ‘the consensus,’ then claiming that “a lot of the lockdown skeptics seem to be more interested in empiricism than mainstream liberals.”

Dore continued his smear campaign against the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, baselessly alleging he lied about masks and admitted it.

Blumenthal falsely claimed that Dr. Fauci lied about his herd immunity prediction.

Blumenthal also promoted the anti-parasitic drug IverMectin as a treatment for COVID-19, which is used to treat scabies and reduce the rate of transmission of malaria among other things that are not COVID-19.

“There have been some breakthroughs there [with] Ivermectin, but the CDC doesn’t seem interested in that, they only seem interested in pushing everyone to take these shots,” Blumenthal said.

Ivermectin is intended for animals and is not approved by the FDA, its website explains that some humans use it, but not for coronavirus: “Tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an anti-viral (a drug for treating viruses). Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.”

YouTube specifically states it prohibits “content that recommends use of Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.”

The Chief Medical Officer Ayo Oyinloye, at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda, told the Royal Gazette there was a lack of evidence to show the effectiveness of the drug against coronavirus.

And DownToEarth reported: “The World Health Organization, the United States Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency have warned against its use due to insufficient data.”

The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization have said not to use Ivermectin for COVID-19.

Dore‘s YouTube show has over 867,000 subscribers, and is used to push unfounded, violence-inciting, Islamophobic conspiracy theories about the volunteer rescue workers The White Helmets, pro-Assad lies, Douma, Syria chemical attack denial, COVID-19 misinformation, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, and frequent unhinged attacks on Fauci.

Blumenthal regularly uses Dore’s show to spread conspiracies, last year, he spread a baseless, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that George Soros is funding regime change in Latin America, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Hong Kong.

In February, Blumenthal falsely alleged that “polio vaccines were tested on kids at an Ashram in India… and many of the children died.”

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