"The (Gateway Pundit) article shows no data, much less any that would demonstrate an effect of any kind of prophylaxis on reducing COVID incidence in India,"
Dr. David Peters, chair of the international health department at Johns Hopkins University, said in an email to USA TODAY.
Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin
are not proven to effectively treat COVID-19, as other independent fact-checking organizations
have noted. Coronavirus cases are falling in India's urban population centers, where strict lockdown measures were put in place.