Posted on 03/24/2020 12:53:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Doctors are hoarding medications touted as possible coronavirus treatments by writing prescriptions for themselves and family members, according to pharmacy boards in states across the country.
The stockpiling has become so worrisome in Idaho, Kentucky, Ohio, Nevada, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Texas that the boards in those states have issued emergency restrictions or guidelines on how the drugs can be dispensed at pharmacies. More states are expected to follow suit.
“This is a real issue, and it is not some product of a few isolated bad apples,” said Jay Campbell, executive director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy.
The medications being prescribed differ slightly from state to state, but include those lauded by President Donald Trump at televised briefings as potential breakthrough treatments for the virus, which has killed more than 500 people in the United States and infected at least 43,000.
None of the drugs has been found to be effective in treating the coronavirus or been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for such uses. Some of them — including chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and remdesivir — are commonly used to treat malaria, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and other conditions.
Pharmacists have been swapping stories on social media about the spike in prescriptions written by doctors for themselves or their families.
“I have multiple prescribers calling in prescriptions for Plaquenil for themselves and their family members as a precaution. Is this ethical?” one person wrote Sunday in a Facebook group for pharmacists, referring to a brand name of hydroxychloroquine. Others weighed in — some noting similar experiences — and expressed their hesitancy to dispense such prescriptions.
“I got called a communist for telling a prescriber, who was trying to call it in for themselves, no,” someone posted Friday in another Facebook group for pharmacists.
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One positive coronavirus case can take out a dozen or more doctors in a heartbeat.
Well they don’t need to stock the Malria drug in NY anymore as Coumo the murderer just banned its use in NY.
Don’t blame them. It’s defense. We can’t say they must perform and then say....no getting well...for you.
I don’t blame the docs - or the nurses. They’re on the front lines.
But we need to get production of this drug pumped up PRONTO, so it will be available for patients who need it, too.
The good news is that, if they get COVID-19, Rachel Maddow and the other NBC reporters and talking heads won’t be taking this drug, because they told us it is “false hope” That means more of the drug available for the rest of America.
Be interesting if we find some of these known drugs are a cure or help tremendously with the virus. Paging the CDC and FDA! Mr. Trump would like a word with you.
RE: Well they don’t need to stock the Malria drug in NY anymore as Coumo the murderer just banned its use in NY.
How do you account for this news just a few minutes ago?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/pence-fda-hydroxychloroquine-off-label-coronavirus
TITLE: Pence: FDA approving ‘off-label’ use for hydroxychloroquine to help coronavirus patients
(EXCERPT)
During a news conference on Sunday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state has acquired 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of the antibiotic zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine, with trials set to start Tuesday.
(Tuesday? That’s today my FRiend ).
But But according to the commie media these drugs dont work..yet you have celebrities and docs writing prescriptions for themselves..so now we get it, its about saving their own a@@es, the rest of us can all croak
Wait what, I thought Cuomo said they would start using the drug today??
What the hell are you talking about ?
what? that idiot.
Sounds perfectly rational. We want them back up as soon as possible.
No pharmacist shall dispense hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine except when written as prescribed for an FDA-approved indication; or as part of a state approved clinical trial related to COVID-19 for a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19, with such test result documented as part of the prescription. No other experimental or prophylactic use shall be permitted, and any permitted prescription is limited to one fourteen day prescription with no refills.But Trump out-maneuvered Cuomo by having FDA approve its use
I want the videos of Rachel Maddow, Heidi Przybyla, Jennifer Rubin, Rick Wilson, Max Boot, George Conway and Tom Nichols drowning in their own mucus because "they're smarter than Orange Man Bad"...
It is not banned in trials. But trial groups are small and not many get to choose to be in a trial. They just pick a few people and the rest be damned. You do not gain the right to use it even if you are hours from death. Trumps compassionate use has been over ridden by Cuomo.
More ever trials include control groups. Only some in the group receive the real thing. This ain’t no time to be farting around.
Executives at Comcast - should also NOT take the drug, since their NBC/MSNBC employees spewed diatrabes against Trump for touting it.
Michigan Board of Pharmacy just issued restrictions on Monday IIRC.
“Some of them — including chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and remdesivir — are commonly used to treat malaria, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and other conditions.”
Once again, the NY Times gets the facts wrong. Remdesivir, a chemical compound patented by Gilead Sciences, is not used for any indication. It is not an FDA licensed agent, and was developed and tested against the Ebola virus, but failed to pass muster. It is a chemical with pharmaceutical pretensions.
Once again, the NY Times gets the facts wrong. Remdesivir, a chemical compound patented by Gilead Sciences, is not used for any indication. It is not an FDA licensed agent, and was developed and tested against the Ebola virus, but failed to pass muster. It is a chemical with pharmaceutical pretensions.”
Remdesivir was used at an Everett, Washington hospital for patient zero here in Washington state. He was a young man who returned from Wuhan - infecting 60 people along the way - was treated with non-approved FDA drug and survived. Unfortunately he started the huge rash of deaths we have endured here in Washington state.
Remdesivir is currently being tested by Kaiser Permanente here in Seattle as well as University of Nebraska and some other hospitals.
Even if Remdesivir is proven to be effective and goes throught the FDA process, it will cost about $1,000 per dose. The malaria drug recommended by President Trump was approved by the FDA years ago to use in malaria treatment. It costs about $20 per treatment.
Maybe in the long run Remdesivir will be approved by the FDA and be more effective, but it will take a long tine to test and be expensive to administer.
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