{"id":3528,"date":"2023-05-09T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:29:30","slug":"joe-rogan-defends-taking-ivermectin-for-covid-19-in-scathing-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/09\/joe-rogan-defends-taking-ivermectin-for-covid-19-in-scathing-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan Defends Taking Ivermectin for COVID-19 in Scathing Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-rogan-defends-taking-invermectin-rant-1798026\">Newsweek<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Rogan hit back at the mainstream media outlets for &#8220;mocking&#8221; him about\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-rogan-recovery-covid-first-podcast-ivermectin-1626958\" target=\"_blank\">taking ivermectin<\/a>\u00a0after testing positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comedian spoke at length on his podcast&nbsp;<em>The Joe Rogan Experience<\/em>, responding to the likes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/cnn\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/msnbc\">MSNBC<\/a>&nbsp;which he claims tried to &#8220;shame him&#8221; for taking alternative medications rather than getting vaccinated against COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rogan contracted COVID on September 1, 2021, and posted a video listing all of the medications he was talking, which included the drug ivermectin. This came days after the Food and Drug Administration (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/fda\">FDA<\/a>) had urged people to stop using the medication to treat or prevent COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-rogan-defends-taking-invermectin-rant-1798026\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek Joe Rogan hit back at the mainstream media outlets for &#8220;mocking&#8221; him about\u00a0taking ivermectin\u00a0after testing positive for COVID-19. The comedian spoke at length on his podcast&nbsp;The Joe Rogan Experience, responding to the likes of&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;and&nbsp;MSNBC&nbsp;which he claims tried to &#8220;shame him&#8221; for taking alternative medications rather than getting vaccinated against COVID. Rogan contracted COVID on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}