Ivermectin: an antibacterial, antiviral and anti-cancer agent After ivermectin had been successful and safe as a mass treatment to fight river blindness in millions of humans, scientists found that the medicine had significant potential in the treatment of a variety of other diseases. Multiple mechanisms of action were discovered. It became known for its "particularly extraordinary" potential as an "antibacterial, antiviral and anti-cancer agent". Please read for yourself: nature.com/articles/ja201711. How was it possible for a human medicine with known significant antiviral properties to get framed as a "horse dewormer" during COVID? What were the motives behind this propaganda? What does it mean for our societies and political system if, in fact, a safe antiviral and anti-inflammatory medicine was withheld from suffering and dying COVID patients despite doctors worldwide attesting to its efficacy?