The CEO of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services asked the State’s AG “if it was ‘unlawful’ for doctors to prescribe HCQ or Ivermectin as early treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.” The Nebraska Attorney General did a bunch of research and came to a conclusion.
It’s not illegal.
Prescribing meds off-label isn’t illegal. In fact. I gather it is how we’ve discovered many of the other uses for them. Doctors, patients, researchers, scientists, informed consent, forward! Medical progress thrived on that. Until COVID19.
SARS CoV2 is the magical fairy flu that 99% of people survive untreated. But imagine if even more of them could live? Gasp! You mean, like 99.5% or 99.9%?
Sure.
And they would, could, can! But the politicians leveraged the “public health” establishment, along with Big Pharma and foul Fauci, to upend common sense and replace science, common sense with idiot ideas like masking, distancing, and mandatory pharmaceutical injections. Oh, and no using safe drugs we’ve had for decades, that might help.
None of that. In fact. Treatment beforehand was an institutional no-no.
Nebraska
In Nebraska, the issue was the public health bureaucracies’ desire to strip physicians of their credentials if they prescribed (these two) medications for off-label use, specifically, Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. Translation: can we get the government between a doctor and their patient, please? But just here. With these.
No good reason it’s just what we’re doing these days. Not giving people medicines that might keep them from ending up in a hospital, which – if you recall – was a big talking point and all talk.
Doctors wanted to treat patients, early, or in advance, especially those few genuinely at high risk. The public health apparatus wanted to stop them. That brings us to the Public Health Offical and the AG.
The short story is that AG Peterson was asked by Dannette Smith, the CEO of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services if it was “unlawful” for doctors to prescribe HCQ or Ivermectin as early treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.
AG Peterson’s “advisory” letter includes details, like facts and research and junk, on Ivermectin, Ivermectin, and COVID19, graphs; it even points out the troubling (and inaccurate) messaging that Ivermectin is only for horses.
He does the same thing with Hydroxychloroquine.
This letter is loaded with citations and links. A goldmine of facts on both the medications and their use. The good, the bad, the great, and the not as great. Lots of detail. And, ultimately, the answer to the question. Can we, the public health bureaucracy, strong-arm physicians with threats into not prescribing these medications.
No. It’s not illegal.
All of which leads me to a much more important question. Why would the state’s public health care experts, whose job it is to find, observe, report, and advise on matters of public health, not have already arrived at the same conclusion?
Why was it ever a question that needed to be asked of the AG? Why did his office have to do a job they should have already done?
Instead of asking if state law would allow them to prohibit off-label prescriptions for these two medications (as opposed to hundreds of others they could target), why did they need the state’s top cop to do the leg work for them?
Because what they want has nothing to do with public health, and they are likely less than pleased that the AG did all this work which is now public and readily available to anyone who would like to reference it.
Thank you, AG Peterson, for considering all the research. I expect it could be the end of your career, but maybe you knew that and did it anyway, and that would make you a very rare individual in your chosen occupation.
HT | Townhall.com
Read the Letter: It’s worth the time.
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