Dennis Prager is a popular nationally-syndicated radio show host, creator of PragerUniversity.com, and the author of several books, including “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph.”

I should state at the outset that were it not for doctors, I would either be paralyzed or dead. I owe my mobility and probably my life to wonderful physicians.

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. If they had been, it is likely that tens – maybe hundreds – of thousands of those who died of the virus would have lived.

For the record, I put my medicines where my mouth is. I have been taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc (as well as vitamin D and selenium) on a regular basis for half a year and ivermectin for the past three months.

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