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Doctors Sue FDA For Prohibiting Ivermectin To Treat Covid-19
'For two weeks, all you heard was 'horse dewormer,'' Pierre Kory told The Federalist. 'And the effects were massive.'
thefederalist.com
21 Feb 2023 ~~ By Victoria Marshall
A group of doctors is
suing the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services for their various attempts at preventing ivermectin from being prescribed to treat Covid-19. Plaintiffs Robert L. Apter, Mary Talley Bowden, and Paul E. Marik argued the FDA tried to prohibit them from prescribing the drug, even though they have successfully used it in treating patients with the coronavirus.
“The FDA generally cannot ban particular uses of human drugs once they are otherwise approved and admitted to the market, even if such use differs from the labeling — commonly referred to as ‘off-label’ use,” the lawsuit argues. “The FDA also cannot advise whether a patient should take an approved drug for a particular purpose.”
But the FDA overstepped its authority by “
directing the public, including health professionals and patients, not to use ivermectin to treat COVID-19, even though the drug remains fully approved for human use,” the lawsuit continues. The aim of the suit is to set aside “any FDA actions that direct or opine on whether ivermectin is an appropriate treatment for COVID-19, declare such actions unlawful, and issue permanent injunctive relief enjoining the FDA from further engaging in such actions.”
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By prohibiting the use of “off-label” drugs to treat Covid, public health officials and federal bureaucrats put the interests of Big Pharma over patients. As such, physicians were scared to prescribe off-label drugs, a common practice within the medical community, for fear of losing their licenses. How many needless Covid deaths or severe infections might have been prevented if not for this false public intimidation campaign?
Commentary:
When a drug is approved for certain illnesses after extensive trials it is often discovered it is good for other illnesses. The drug companies often will not do the extensive and costly trials for a new indication and in particular if the drug is now generic and cheap as is Ivermectin and HCQ. Both are dirt cheap. However, licensed physicians are entitled to prescribe these drugs for indications that are off label.
Our Federal Government and some State Governments went after these physicians with legal actions when they were practicing medicine that was perfectly legal.
The data is clear that either one improved outcomes by over 50%. When used in combination I would expect it to be even higher.
Fact - these are very safe drugs with minuscule side effects in comparison to other top 10 drugs in the world. These docs have a great lawsuit and I am sure that our judiciary will throw it out immediately. Name one illness in the history of modern medicine where doctors were forbidden to try and treat it.
This was murder. There is way to sugarcoat it. In hindsight I think most will agree (now or eventually) that the vaccines were bad, but even putting yourself back in time to the point where the entire nation breathed a sigh of relief (after the election of course) with the vaccine, there was still no reason we could not have done an “all of the above approach” to the “pandemic”.
It is all about control.
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