While the death toll from this campaign is difficult to calculate, the impact was far-reaching. The campaign was used as fuel to terminate the employment of doctors who understood the science behind ivermectin, as well as justification for pharmacies to cease filling ivermectin prescriptions when people needed the medication most. 

This war on Ivermectin touched us here at the OP as well. An article we published about a peer-reviewed report, Jagged Little Pill: How Many Lives Could Have Been Saved If We'd ACTUALLY "Followed the Science?" was targeted as 'disinformation' and used to downgrade our ranking with advertisers, costing us untold revenue.

It was used to discredit everyone who even dared to mention it. Users or those who wondered if it might be viable were treated with mockery and defamation.  Famously, Joe Rogan took it when he came down with Covid and recovered remarkably quickly, only to be scorned endlessly online for using "horse paste."

Courageous doctors fought back.  

In 2022, doctors filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the agencies' unlawful attempts to block the use of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19. 

"We're suing the FDA for lying to the public about ivermectin," said Dr. Bowden, a plaintiff in the case. 

The complaint directly cites US laws, including the provision that the FDA "may not interfere with the authority of a health care provider to prescribe or administer any legally marked device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship."