However, I will now state with equal certitude that the American medical profession as a whole and many individual doctors are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans – very possibly, more than that. Along with the media – from The New York Times to Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter – Americans have been denied both life-saving information and life-saving drugs. I am specifically referring to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. These drugs (along with zinc), which are as safe as any medicines humanity has taken in the last half-century, should have been almost universally used to treat COVID-19 patients as soon as those patients showed symptoms or tested positive – and even as a prophylactic to prevent or minimize the effects of the illness in the first place.