Uttar Pradesh, the most populated state in India with a population of 240 million people has only been averaging 24 COVID-19 cases and 0-2 deaths per day in recent months and ranked last in cases per capita last week among India’s 26 states. As The Blaze writes, “what gives?”

The likelihood is that the answer lies in liberals’ current favorite drug to hate: Ivermectin. Even if they want to ignore over 60 studies vouching for the efficacy of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2, especially when used early, they cannot ignore “pure reality of lived experience.”

The Blaze reports:

Last year, the northern state of Uttar Pradesh began dispensing ivermectin liberally and encouraging people to take it early on and even preventively. As Trial Site News reported earlier this year, “By the end of 2020, Uttar Pradesh — which distributed free ivermectin for home care — had the second-lowest fatality rate in India at 0.26 per 100,000 residents in December. Only the state of Bihar, with 128 million residents, was lower, and it, too, recommends ivermectin.”

The above graphic shows “COVID has been dead in Uttar Pradesh with the exception of a very brief six-week spike in the early spring.” But that can be explained. “As the AP reported in mid-April, during the surge in Uttar Pradesh, many of these seasonal workers who work half the year in the big cities returned home to their villages. They were likely not taking ivermectin.”

However, “when the state began distributing the drug to everyone, cases plummeted quicker and sharper than anywhere else we’ve seen in the world, and the gains have held for months with record low cases.”

The Blaze writes cites Dr. Surya Kant Tripathi, head of the Respiratory Medicine Department, King George Medical University, Lucknow, who “told the Financial Express Online in April that the state began giving ivermectin to everyone who was in home isolation (rather than telling them to do nothing until they can’t breathe, like we do here in the United States).”

The Blaze concludes:

Ivermectin was regarded as a “wonder drug” responsible for virtually eradicating river blindness in Africa. Given its robust anti-viral and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of action, Uttar Pradesh is a living testament that it could have been used to wipe COVID off the map as well. Sadly, the Western world would rather bankrupt us and cause more deaths for politically driven solutions that don’t work than cede back to the people the control they’ve established. Perhaps there is a lot we can learn from the third world, for we are now seeing the growth of a “fourth world” mentality that is much more destructive than the third world.