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Is Big Pharma Suppressing Hydroxychloroquine?
American Thinker ^ | 05/19/2020 | Jon N. Hall

Posted on 05/19/2020 5:37:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In the May 14 edition of her Fox News show, Laura Ingraham interviewed Dr. Ivette Lozano, a Texas physician, who was having trouble with a pharmacy that had refused to fill her off-label prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) without submitting to new red tape. It seems the Texas pharmacy board is requiring physicians to reveal patients’ medical diagnoses before allowing pharmacies to dispense HCQ prescriptions.

Dr. Lozano’s pharmacy must have been citing Title 22, Part 15, Chapter 291, Subchapter A, §291.30. However, if one goes to Texas Pharmacy Rules at the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, and clicks on the link for Subchapter A just under Chapter 291, the webpage one is taken to does not list §291.30.

A little more digging gave me Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Response at the Texas Medical Board, which, under “COVID-19 Emergency Rules,” has this link: Texas State Board of Pharmacy -- §291.30. Medication Limitations. That link is for a webpage showing that §291.30 was an emergency action, and it makes this requirement of Texas physicians like Dr. Lozano who prescribe HCQ,: “(1)the prescription or medication order bears a written diagnosis from the prescriber consistent with the evidence for its use.”

On May 15, the day after Laura Ingraham’s interview of Dr. Lozano, The Texan ran “Pharmacy Board Loosens Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions, Reversing Course” by Kim Roberts:

Because of her concern for patient privacy that seemed incompatible with the unprecedented rule, Lozano contacted State Senator Bob Hall to ask for help reaching the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. Hall was concerned about the rule that seemed to be inhibiting the dispensing of these potentially life-saving prescriptions…


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; chinavirus; chinesevirus; covid19; hcq; hydroxychloroquine; ingraham; wuhanflu; wuhanvirus
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Additionally, he is concerned about “collusion between the pharmacy board and pharmaceutical companies who want to prevent the use of an inexpensive drug while they develop a new, expensive drug.”
1 posted on 05/19/2020 5:37:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
This May 15 Guidance Statement attempts to further clarify the rule. (It also states that it is “in response to several news stories,” perhaps Laura’s.) The operative language is surely this:

The intended use for the drug is not required if the practitioner determines the furnishing of this information is not in the best interest of the patient in accordance with Board rule 291.34 (b)(7). [See (7)(A)(vii), it’s on the second page of the rule.]


2 posted on 05/19/2020 5:38:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

An interesting interview:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/35754-hydroxychlorquine-dr-zelenko-we-are-at-a-pivotal-moment


3 posted on 05/19/2020 5:41:49 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: SeekAndFind

The MSM / DNC are willing to kill you in the hope of destroying the economy and OragemanBad. That, and the MSM is beholden to Big Pharma for ad dollars.


4 posted on 05/19/2020 5:42:29 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The real virus is the MSM)
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To: SeekAndFind

Answer: WITHOUT A DOUBT!!


5 posted on 05/19/2020 5:43:50 AM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes


6 posted on 05/19/2020 5:44:53 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hydroxychloroquine
BY FULL MEASURE STAFF SUNDAY, MAY 17TH 2020
http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/hydroxychloroquine

This is Sharyl Attkisson and her people. Worthwhile.


7 posted on 05/19/2020 5:49:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

short answer is YES.

Dr. Lozano was on with Laura Ingraham again last night, saying she was, once again, having difficulties acquiring hydroxy. Dr. Knut Wittkowski was also on re big pharma/NIH. the whole show is worth watching:

18 May: Ingraham Angle, Fox News
7m in, Dr. Knut Wittkowski
19m45s Dr. Ivette Lozano etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frf4mebaaxg


8 posted on 05/19/2020 5:52:37 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

meant to add BigFakeNewsMSM is doing the suppressing too.


9 posted on 05/19/2020 5:53:56 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve been an avid follower of Medcram from the beginning and 2 days ago YouTube took down the most recent lecture referring to the effacacy of HCQ. I had to go to the website to see the video....


10 posted on 05/19/2020 5:59:01 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: MAGAthon

What percentage of TV ads are from Pharma? There is no money in HCQ. Though the left did try to say there was, that Trump was promoting it for profit, which is patently absurd.


11 posted on 05/19/2020 6:08:12 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

The problem is entirely fear of AMBULANCE CHASING LAWYERS.

Every lawyer bringing a COVID 19 related suit should be shot dead on the court house steps. Such trash does not deserve to be living in America.


12 posted on 05/19/2020 6:11:40 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course big pharma is against hydroxy. No big bucks to be made.


13 posted on 05/19/2020 6:16:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: FreedomPoster
What percentage of TV ads are from Pharma? There is no money in HCQ. Though the left did try to say there was, that Trump was promoting it for profit, which is patently absurd.

Doublethink leads to doublespeak. Orwell predicted today's Democrats/socialists/liberals/progressives/communists (but, I repeat myself) in their holding two opposing beliefs simultaneously. There's no money to be made by big pharma on HCQ, but President Trump will reap a fortune promoting it.

14 posted on 05/19/2020 6:17:45 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dr. Marc Seagal on Fox crediting this medicine with saving his fathers life.

The Donald is once again setting the agenda when he sees “ the cabal” doing an end run on something that , with a doctors review/prescreption can help with this issue and at a much lower cost....

The MSM doesn’t realize we watch all the ads and see all the disclaimers put around those , so we are supposed to just take their word of “ Don’t use this”


15 posted on 05/19/2020 6:21:23 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: bert
The problem is entirely fear of AMBULANCE CHASING LAWYERS.

Every lawyer bringing a COVID 19 related suit should be shot dead on the court house steps.

Except in limited circumstances (like a nursing home) where the victim could not have been exposed any other way, it is impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt (or even by a preponderance of the evidence) where a virus infected him.

But the nursing home victims' survivors should be suing Cuomo into poverty for his orders that sent them back to probable death. Let the blood-sucking lawyers win that one!

16 posted on 05/19/2020 6:25:50 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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RE: Dr. Marc Seagal on Fox crediting this medicine with saving his fathers life.

Michigan Rep. Karen Whitsett gave a testimonial about her experience with COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine on national television and how it saved her live in her battle against Covid-19.

In an unprecedented move, she even visited the White House to personally thank Trump for making the drug known nationally.



Guess what happened next.... The "tolerant" Democrats, the party of "It's my body, it's my choice", CENSURED her for meeting with Trump!!

See here:

Detroit Democrats unanimously censure lawmaker who credited Trump for COVID-19 recovery


17 posted on 05/19/2020 6:28:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: neodad

Link?


18 posted on 05/19/2020 6:29:25 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: JimRed

Life has risks.

If you fear exposure, don’t go to a Nursing Home. Total prevention to a lawyerly determination is never possible. Being in a nursing home during the pandemic is negligence on the part of the patient.


19 posted on 05/19/2020 6:31:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: SeekAndFind

Overt collusion would be hard to prove; but pharma is incentivised to oppose the drug, and the industry is no doubt riddled with Trump haters.


20 posted on 05/19/2020 6:31:50 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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