All weekend, We reported Regarding the controversy surrounding a story in Oklahoma, the story alleged that some emergency rooms in the state were overcrowded with patients overdose of ivermectin, so that gunshot wound victims had difficulty getting the care they needed.
Stories from sparse sources, submitted by KFOR in Oklahoma City News Desk, Titled “Patients overdose ivermectin to support rural hospitals and ambulances in Oklahoma” and quoted an emergency room doctor Jason McElyea as saying, “The emergency room has received so much support to As for shooting victims, it is difficult to reach the facility where they are located to get definite care and treatment” because of the alleged overdose of ivermectin.
The story is naturally picked up Reported by national news media such as Rolling Stone and Hill, and some international media such as BBC News and The Guardian. Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Tweet The link to this story last Thursday, at the time of writing, her tweet still exists.The problem with this story is that one of the hospitals where McElyea worked before (NHS – Sequoyah) not only released Totally deny He made a statement on their website, but also pointed out that McElyea has not worked in their emergency room for “more than two months.”
In addition, I checked the websites and Facebook pages of three other hospitals (McAlester Regional Cancer Center, Integris Grove Hospital, and Stilwell Memorial Hospital) where Dr. McElyea is said to have worked in the past, although they did not have anything similar on their pages For NHS content – Sequoyah’s content about Dr. McElyea, there is no warning about the dangers of people taking ivermectin doses for horses, you will think you will see if their emergency room is besieged and overdose People, other patients had to be turned away.
Not surprisingly, the Democratic defender/CNN “fact checker” Daniel Dale hurried to track down the truth of the story and eagerly announced on Monday afternoon that the story was not entirely false, because McClea belongs to A hospital issued a statement claiming that they treated “a few” patients with ivermectin overdose:
This is a statement from the Oklahoma doctor’s hospital in support of his comment that ivermectin use has caused congestion in hospitals in the state-although not as viral reports suggest that ivermectin is causing congestion in hospitals in the state The main reason. (String!) pic.twitter.com/1AJF719u5x
-Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 6, 2021
Discerning readers will notice that the big problem with the original KFOR story is not that the patient overdose of ivermectin; on the contrary, this is to suggest that gunshot wound victims and other patients have to be shut out. In some cases, The ambulance cannot be used due to the large number of patients allegedly taking drugs. Integris Grove’s statement does not support this claim, but based on Dell’s false framework of its and KFOR story, you would not know this.
Dell went on to write a very long article, you can read it in full here, Engaged in “dualism”, saying that although the story is “poorly framed”, critics of the story on the right should also be blamed for drawing a conclusion that the whole story is false:
So far, as far as I know, what has happened is that the doctor accepted an interview with a local media. In the interview, he mentioned that the use of ivermectin was one of the reasons for the congestion in some hospitals. Then the outlet identified the use of ivermectin as the main cause of the blockage, which is obviously not. 2/
-Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 6, 2021
Then the national and international media compiled the original, poorly framed local stories, and they themselves failed to investigate the extent to which Ivermectin caused the congestion of OK Hospital. Maddow and others posted these stories on Twitter. 3/
-Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 6, 2021
So: This is not great for anyone in the shared chain. But then, some people who criticized others for rushing to conclusions themselves came to a conclusion based on a message released by an OK hospital system, which stated that no patients with ivermectin problems were found. 4/
-Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 6, 2021
That hospital is only one of the hospitals to which this doctor belongs, so its words are not actually proof that the doctor is fabricating the whole thing. We now know that at least one other hospital that worked with the doctor did see patients with ivermectin problems. 5/
-Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 6, 2021
Dale appeared on his network this morning to expand his view that no side in this story is clean, even if he himself continues to construct it incorrectly:
CNN’s “Fact Checker” @deal8 Criticizing conservative media for “jumping conclusions” on the false Oklahoma/Ivermectin story. He said that a hospital has “a few patients”, so this story is not 100% wrong. pic.twitter.com/FCRlSUSrKc
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2021
Ironically, in a story that proved to be fake news, the so-called “fact checker” Dell himself spread fake news. How ironic is this? Again, for the record, this story is not only about ER being “crowded” by people with Ivermectin OD, this story shows that patients with other problems are turned away by ER, and some cannot even get ambulance services to their homes.
After KFOR submitted the report, we stayed in about 5 to 6 hospitals here instead of a hospital in the state periodRegardless of whether McElyea works for it or not, they stand up and say that ivermectin patients are overwhelming their systems.Although confirmed by the hospital report The ICU of Wuhan has reached or is close to full capacity due to the Wuhan virus, but any of them have zero confirmation of McElyea and KFOR’s statement of rejecting ivermectin from other patients.
Dell did not solve the problem. Instead, in his efforts to protect journalism and, of course, dunk conservatives, it actually became more chaotic by conflating “crowding” in the emergency room with “rejecting” patients. This story will continue to exist in my “fake news” file until even a hospital records it to confirm the KFOR report, as should others.
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