“This arbitrary, irrational and unjustifiable interference by defendants with the use of HCQ as a prophylaxis interferes with the political process by which the United States selects its president: national political conventions,” association attorney Andrew Schlafly wrote in the lawsuit.
He said continued interference with allowing doctors to prescribe the drug “has the effect of infringing on the right of the people to hold national political conventions, which has been an essential part of our presidential elections since at least 1832.”
Key is the power of the FDA over prescriptions.
“The FDA has the authority to approve drugs based on safety,” Orient said. “And then they can also approve it for specific indications.”
But she also said that at least 20% of the prescriptions written by doctors for all drugs are for “off-label” uses, something the FDA specifically allows. She said that makes sense because once a manufacturer gets FDA approval of a drug as safe for one purpose “it’s a hugely expensive endeavor” to get similar approval for another purpose.
“And once a drug is generic, there is no incentive whatsoever to invest all that money,” Orient said.
More important, she said, the FDA does not require separate safety indications for each and every use of the drug.
“It’s either safe, or it isn’t,” Orient said. And she noted it has been approved for various autoimmune diseases.
“It’s safe for use for lupus but not safe for COVID-19,” she said.
But as recently as April 24 the FDA put out an advisory against out-of-hospital use of hydroxychloroquine “due to risk of heart rhythm problems.”
Orient said there is no reason to believe the drug is dangerous.
A spokesman for the FDA said it does not comment on pending litigation. There was no immediate response from Ducey either to the lawsuit or why he did not answer the April letter from the doctor group.
Big Pharma has spoken. Just heard another local doctor spouting the idiotic retracted studies on HCL.
This is costing lives.
Gee, no political motivation here!
The media pooh pooh the doctors who support this drug; I’m sure these docs will be praised by our Fake News!
Who can take hydroxychloroquine?
Hydroxychloroquine can be prescribed to adults and children of all ages. It can also be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers.
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/fsp/drugs/Hydroxychloroquine.pdf
Should go personally to Trump
No excuse for federal obstruction of one drug if a Dr and patient want to use it, as is already being done all over the world
this is not informed consent controlled by physicians and
surgeons, but is DEATH PANELS of DEMOCRATS murdering
the elderly because they are more conservative.
It is Murder by Political FIAT.
MURDER by Democrats.
It IS what they do.
If a doctor wants to prescribe it for hemorrhoids, they should be able to...............
Doctors who refused their patients HCQ treatments could be sued.
How many people died who were taking this medication? We could be saying that the death count could have been drastically lower if HCQ had been used freely.
This is inhumane and criminal.
Good on them for filing suit!
I wonder what the studies.woyld sgow if Trump jad never utter the drug’s name. And I don’t.see much mention.of zinc in the vast majority of them. The whole point is the syngery between the two.