Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning medicine that was affordable, licensed, safe, and approved for off-label use until doctors tried to use it to treat flu patients with COVID19. The FDA not only got between you and your doctor, but they also convinced boards of health to threaten the licenses of physicians and pharmacists.
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The result was a chilling effect on the doctor-patient relationship that likely resulted in a significant increase in severe disease, hospitalization, and death.
An actual crime against humanity.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued an amicus brief in support of Apter v. HHS, the FDA, for meddling to the detriment of their patients.
“Defendant FDA has improperly exploited misunderstandings about the legality and prevalence of off-label uses of medication, in order to mislead courts, state medical boards, and the public into thinking there is anything improper about off-label prescribing,” AAPS writes in its amicus brief to the court. “Not only is off-label prescribing fully proper, legal, and commonplace, but it is also absolutely necessary in order to give effective care to patients.”
Until COVID, I’ve been led to understand that doctors were at liberty to write scripts for off-label use of licensed drugs for whatever purpose they and their patients deemed appropriate. It was a doctor-patient thing. Treat each person based on the symptoms and their circumstances. But the Wuhan flu sent the Public Health Industrial Complex (PHIC) into Hitler mode.
Politicians piled on blindly following Federal agency guidelines even when they contradicted all known practices, including those agencies’ previous research. The result was more illness, hospitalization, and death, complete with cash incentives for the PHIC if it ignored patient health and safety and did as they were told.
Hospitals and state’s cashed in, scooping up trillions in taxpayers’ dollars while those taxpayers were losing jobs and businesses and getting an illness for which they could not get proper treatment.
Let’s just say someone said, enough of this crap, and they sued the FDA.
AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly pointed out to the court that the FDA “has engaged in a campaign of interference with the proper use by physicians of ivermectin, which has long been approved as fully safe for human use.” He alerted the court that once the FDA approves a medication as safe, then physicians have full authority to prescribe it to treat any illness, particularly a novel virus like Covid-19.
If the FDA gets away with it, they’ll do it again, putting the interests of politics and big pharma ahead of doctors and their patients the machinery of public health, and will continue to pursue self-interest before all else. And that, we cannot have.
Added: Amicus Filing by the AAPS
