Apparently push the false story of UVA rape and the lawsuits that followed were not enough to persuade Rolling Stone magazine to stick to only covering music. But in an article now discredited Released on Friday, the Musical Rag claimed that the Northeast Sequoyah hospital system was making patients wait by gunshot as they faced an influx of people overdosing a livestock dewormer drug, believing it would cure COVID. But none of this was true. And while the magazine has received the most publicity for publishing the fake story, other liberal media have peddled it as well.
“The increase in the number of people using ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug generally reserved for deworming horses or cattle, as a treatment or preventive of Covid-19 has strengthened emergency rooms so much that the victims of gunshot were struggling to access “healthcare facilities, an Oklahoma emergency physician said,” Peter Wade dubiously said.
And according to a doctor, the gunshot victims could not be treated because of it:
This week, Dr Jason McElyea told KFOR that overdoses are causing backlogs in rural hospitals, leaving beds and ambulance services scarce.
“The emergencies are so sustained that gunshot victims have found it difficult to get to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” McElyea said.
Gunshot victims wait as horse dewormer overdoses overwhelm Oklahoma hospitals, doctor says https://t.co/ke654AV6o1 pic.twitter.com/Is4nAsSOyA
– Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) 3 septembre 2021
But when the hospital system pushed back the Stone’s report, proving it to be completely false, the magazine issued an “update” rather than a correction or retraction.
The update was mainly the declaration of the hospital system. “Although Dr Jason McElyea is not an NHS Sequoyah employee, he is affiliated with a group of medical staff who cover our emergency room. Having said that, Dr McElyea has not worked at our Sallisaw site for over 2 months, ”they said.
And not only was the magazine’s source not working on it recently, but they hadn’t treated anyone for an overdose of dewormer and were treating gunshot victims:
NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients for complications from taking ivermectin. This includes not treating any patient for ivermectin overdose. All patients who visited our emergency room received appropriate medical attention. Our hospital has not had to turn away patients seeking emergency care. We want to reassure our community that our staff are working hard to provide quality health care to all patients. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify this issue and, as always, we appreciate the support of our community.
But Rolling Stone’s fake news with the story doesn’t end there.
In their tweet promoting the story, the magazine showed an image of people waiting as if outside a building, as if it was photographic evidence (above). But the month of August has just ended and the picture showed people wearing winter coats, the trees had no leaves and it was obvious that none of them had fallen victim to a ball.
As Spectator Contributor Stephen L. Miller reported via Twitter Sunday, “The photograph Rolling Stone used for their fake emergency ivermectin story is from January, via the PA and was for a church campaign for African Americans to get vaccines.”
The photograph Rolling Stone used for their fake ivermectin story in the emergency room was from January, via the PA, and was intended for a church vaccination campaign for African Americans. (HT @ FuzzyTaylor235) https://t.co/DK3mwASujK pic.twitter.com/NoLivZekWZ
– Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 5, 2021
Not only did Rolling Stone publish their own article highlighting the fake story, others in the liberal media were also peddling their own variations of the fake news. “The sudden craze among COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to take ivermectin – a pest control treatment commonly used in horses and other farm animals – has caused an overwhelming number of people in need of overdose treatment drugs across Oklahoma ”, pretending Brandon Sapienza for the New York Daily News.
And following the trend of the usual suspects pushing absolute nonsense, of course, Newsweek picked it up too much. “A doctor in rural Oklahoma said people taking the horse dewormer drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 were filling area emergency rooms,” Jackson wrote.
Even the MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tweeted the report from the local NBC branch which was The source of all the fake news about KFOR history. MSNBC host Joy Reid also spoke about it on air on Friday using insider report. “An emergency in rural Oklahoma is overwhelmed by people overdosing on ivermectin, the dewormer drug for horses. It has become so serious that the bullet victims, the bullet victims have to wait to be treated, ”she repeated.
Unlike Rolling Stone, none of these other outlets have issued any updates, corrections or retractions to their reports, nor the Northeastern Hospital System Sequoyah statement.
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