Healthcare reform has been a perennial political project in American politics, from the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and those of Richard Nixon through Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and now ...

Health officials in Japan have halted vaccine rollouts for COVID-19 and have instead authorized treatment with the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. As the infodemic of misinformation perpetuated in ...

Inaccurate claims about ivermectin being used to treat COVID-19 in Japan, a country where almost 80% of the population is fully vaccinated, have resurfaced online. As previously debunked by Reuters on ...

An article online falsely claims Japanese authorities have abandoned the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, instead choosing to rely on ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication. Sign up here. According to ...

The Tokyo Medical Association is a professional organization that’s not affiliated with the government, and can only make policy recommendations. Ivermectin is not listed by the Japanese government as ...