The platform said it also removed a video from Johnson in line with its policies against COVID-19 misinformation. The video had highlighted Johnson's remarks from a hearing where he discussed experimental treatments for COVID-19 like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
The video that was taken down showed Johnson tearing into the Biden administration over its response to the pandemic and touting the two drugs, which are unproven as treatments for the virus.
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"It always baffled me that there was such a concerted effort to deny the American public the type of robust exploration research into early treatment early in this pandemic," Johnson said before calling ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine "incredibly safe."
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"We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus,'' the person stated.
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Johnson, of Wisconsin, slammed YouTube’s decision as representative of Big Tech power.
''YouTube’s ongoing COVID censorship proves they have accumulated too much unaccountable power,'' he declared in a statement.
''Big Tech and mainstream media believe they are smarter than medical doctors who have devoted their lives to science and use their skills to save lives. They have decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies.
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''How many lives will be lost as a result? How many lives could have been saved with a free exchange of medical ideas? Government-sanctioned censorship of ideas and speech should concern us all,'' he went on to note.
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Johnson made the comments during a November hearing about controversial treatments for coronavirus, including hydroxychloroquine. Various studies have found the drug, traditionally used as an antimalarial, to be ineffective and, in multiple cases, even dangerous for people who had the virus,and may cause adverse effects.
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Studies have also shown that coronavirus patients who receive the drug were more likely to experience issues like heart rhythm irregularities compared with patients who did not receive the drug.
A study released Thursday, however, shows that hydroxychloroquine, also touted by former President Donald Trump, increased the survival rate of severely ill coronavirus patients.
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''We found that when the cumulative doses of two drugs, HCQ and AZM, were above a certain level, patients had a survival rate 2.9 times the other patients,'' a study published by medRxiv points out.
Trump took hydroxychloroquine despite pushback from medical experts, including his White House coronavirus team member Dr. Anthony Fauci. Twitter last year restricted the account of Donald Trump Jr. after he posted a video of doctors praising the effectiveness of the drug.
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