Posted on 06/10/2022 9:15:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Washington law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for interfering with the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
The lawsuit was filed by Boyden Gray & Associates on behalf of three doctors who were disciplined for prescribing human-grade ivermectin to patients.
The firm’s founder, attorney Boyden Gray, is a former legal adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Gray told The Epoch Times that the FDA had violated well-established law that allows doctors to prescribe an FDA-approved drug as an off-label treatment.
Ivermectin was no different, he said. It was approved by the FDA in 1966.
“Congress recognized the importance of letting doctors be doctors and expressly prohibited the FDA from interfering with the practice of medicine,” Gray said.
“That is exactly what the FDA has done time and time again throughout this pandemic, assuming authority it doesn’t have and trying to insert itself in the medical decisions of Americans everywhere.”
The three plaintiffs in the case are Dr. Paul Marik of Virginia, Dr. Mary Bowden of Texas, and Dr. Robert Apter of Arizona.
Marik is a founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care 21 Alliance (FLCCC), a national nonprofit that promotes alternative COVID-19 treatments to the government-touted vaccine.
“The FDA has made public statements on ivermectin that have been misleading and have raised unwarranted concern over a critical drug in preventing and treating COVID-19,” Marik told The Epoch Times. “To do this is to ignore both statutory limits on the FDA’s authority and the significant body of scientific evidence from peer-reviewed research.”
According to Marik, more than 80 medical trials conducted since the outbreak of COVID-19 show that ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment for the virus.
Gray said the FDA has engaged in unlawful interference with the use of ivermectin and should be held accountable for that.
The lawsuit included several statements made by the FDA that Gray said show that the administration interfered with the use of ivermectin.
They include an Aug. 21, 2021, Twitter post by the agency: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
The post, with an image of a horse and a doctor, has a headline that reads, “Why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.”
Marik, Bowden, and Apter are among a number of U.S. doctors across the United States who have been disciplined for prescribing ivermectin.
Marik, a critical care specialist, was suspended by Sentara Norfolk General Hospital for prescribing ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. Bowden, an ear, nose, and throat specialist, was suspended from the Houston Medical Hospital. Apter was under investigation by both the Washington Medical Commission and Arizona Medical Board for prescribing ivermectin.
Marik was recently informed that he was under investigation by the medical licensing board in Virginia.
Gray filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Texas.
The doctors are seeking a permanent injunction that would prohibit the FDA from interfering with the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.
Ping for your interest
Ivermectin is a human drug.
It is also an animal drug.
To charscterize it as not appropriate for people because animals take it is antithetical to “science”.
By this assinine logic we’d also have to not take any other drug animals can also use.
Just utterly stupid idiotic gaslighting on the part of the FDA.
Bon chance Boyden.
The attribution on the protocol is "Developed and Updated by Paul Marik, MD, FCP (SA), FRCP (C), FCCP, FCCM. Professor of Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School."
I saved several versions of his protocol. He was constantly updating it to reflect the latest findings. In my opinion, he made outstanding contributions to the prevention and care of COVID.
The only version I still have on my computer is dated December 17th, 2020. It was subsequently absorbed into the FLCCC protocols after Dr. Marik was released from EVMS. He has continued to update the FLCCC protocols regularly.
Prayers 🙏🙏🙏 UP for the legal team !!
About friggen time. Godspeed...Picket the judge’s house!
Guess they should outlaw amoxicillin because it’s also used for fish.
By their Ivermectin-is-an-animal-drug logic, they would be for doing this.
Eat more steak .......? My livestock gets ivermectin .
The suppression of the use of Ivermectin against Covid represented #CrimesAgainstHumanity. Everyone involved should do hard prison time. At minimum.
Since I haven’t posted it in a while:
Ivermectin links. More than you probably want to know about Ivermectin:
General info on use vs. Covid, etc.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Huge meta study
https://ivmmeta.com/
Doctors using it and protocols
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/
https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/
Emory University has a very prestigious medical school. The Dean of Emory Medical School has Indian heritage, and co-wrote an article in the Times of India advocating using Ivermectin against Covid, among other things. This has gotten =ZERO= coverage in US media, including his hometown paper, the AJC, and his hometown news network, CNN.
Try to convince me that isn’t newsworthy - both his original article and the non-coverage of it by US media.
Link to the article discussed above, and Emory’s leadership page.
Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
One of the authors appears below as Dean
https://www.med.emory.edu/about/leadership/index.html
Africa and Ivermectin
https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
The infographic there is excellent. Summary: The parts of Africa where Ivermectin is in widespread use to prevent a terrible parasitic disease, African River Blindness, also have very low Covid incidence.
Interesting Twitter account that has linked many Ivermectin and other med studies on Covid treatments.
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher
Discovery of Ivermectin. A National Historic Chemical Landmark per the American Chemical Society. Not something to be derided as “horse dewormer”.
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/discovery-of-ivermectin-mectizan.pdf.
“The Story of Ivermectin”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZqVlyy6YtNiz/
https://rumble.com/vr0rim-the-ivermectin-story-original-and-uncut.html
Good 24 minute summary.
Ivermectin and Cancer
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/12kFnAdfAW/ivermectin-cures-cancer-/
India’s Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout-—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html
Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf
When citizens violate the law, they are arrested and prosecuted, but when a government agency does, citizens have to sue to get it to stop violating the law.
In a just world agents who violate the law would be prosecuted, or at the very least fired and barred.
bkmk
Because of all the needless deaths they caused by illegally forbidding effective drugs so they could line their pockets with profits from the clot shots, they should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Lining their pockets was just a fringe benefit. The primary reason for murdering all those elderly people was to change the voting rules and allow the steal to get rid of Trump. They knew if Trump had a second term many of them would be doing perp walks.
Make them play the game by their own rules ...
Ivermectin and HCQ were banned to treat covid so the drug companies could get EUA for their experimental injections. As long as treatments were available for covid, no EUA could be granted.
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