Shortly after Buckingham Palace announced Queen Elizabeth II's positive COVID-19 diagnosis on Sunday, she became the focus of many wild rumors. Well, to be fair, rumors of her death have been swirling around for quite a while ever since her retreat from the public eye last last year.
First, the Australian news program "A Current Affair" claimed that the Queen was self-medicating with stromectol, which is the brand name for the antiparasitic medicine ivermectin, to treat her mild, cold-like symptoms. A separate broadcast segment of the program pushed the same claim, which quickly spread across Twitter.
