Today: Did FDA recently "admit" that doctors can prescribe ivermectin for COVID-19? Did Whoopi Goldberg "beg for mercy" after Tom Selleck remarks?

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This past week, several social media accounts and fringe news outlets began posting the claim that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had recently "admitted" that doctors were now allowed to prescribe ivermectin — the anti-parasitic drug briefly considered to be a possible treatment during the coronavirus pandemic — for COVID-19. Is it true that the FDA suddenly changed its tune about ivermectin? Alex Kasprak reports. 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