It’s almost like the FDA has suddenly had whiplash when it comes to my old friend, Ivermectin. Perhaps it would be better said that the FDA is now doing its best to play CYA! As detailed in both the Epoch Times and Coffee and Covid, last week the attorney for the FDA came out with an amazing statement that “FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID.”
Hmmm!
The shocking statement arose during a hearing in a lawsuit against the FDA brought by Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik, and Robert Apter. The doctors allege that the FDA interfered with their free speech rights and their medical ability to prescribe ivermectin for covid treatment. “We’re suing the FDA for lying to the public about ivermectin,” explained Dr. Bowden.
Under U.S. law, the FDA “may not interfere with the authority of a health care provider to prescribe or administer any legally marked device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship.”
But in various statements, the FDA repeatedly told Americans that ivermectin “isn’t authorized or approved to treat COVID-19,” and on its website’s Q&A, warned against such use: “Q: Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? A: No.”
Who can forget this nonsensical FDA tweet?
As those of you who view my pieces regularly are well aware, I have been very pro-Ivermectin from the very beginning. I have written multiple blogs detailing the success of Ivermectin in other countries. To me not using Ivermectin made little sense, as its side-effect profile is negligible. At one point I asked multiple liberal and RINO friends if they would take Ivermectin if it were available … unanimously, they said, “No!” … They probably all knew that they were not horses or cows!
At this point one might say … “for all intents and purposes Covid is over, so who cares?”
I CARE!! And America should care for a multitude of reasons:
First – Here big government imposed its will on Americans, many of whom did not know better. Back then the FDA was obviously following directions from somebody. But who and more importantly, “Why?”
Second – Who’s to say how many lives may have been saved if the FDA had just kept its mouth shut? Maybe one … maybe ten … maybe hundreds … or conceivably thousands or even way more!
Third – Now that the FDA has changed its tune about Ivermectin, how many physicians who were punished by liberal medical boards will have redress? Hopefully, those on various medical boards will now be punished for their unconstitutional “we know best” dictums.
Fourth – Perhaps most importantly, when a similar thing happens again … and it will happen again! … will the physician-patient relationship prevail, or will we again be subjected to some sort of FDA whiplash?
8/14/23