Fallacy of extensional pruning. Soave (for McElyea) retreats to literal niceties to claim McElya made no connection, when the context of quotes has overhospitalization surrounded by laments about Ivermectin. The inference is reasonable he was connecting the two.

The source for the poisonings-causing-hospital-strain statement appears to be a doctor, Jason McElyea. But here's the very, very important thing: At no point does he ever actually making this claim. KFOR, the local news site, just made it up.