[BipolarBob]

but the hospitals lose liability protection if they deviate from the prescribed, and I suspect deeply flawed, protocol.

Yeah, that needs to be addressed. patients should have rights/say so on their treatment options. Denying Ivermectin is just wrong.

[rlmorel]

With the FDA withdrawing the use of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, any physicians prescribing it risk their license if the patient is harmed or dies, and this is a terrible precedent that has been set.

Physicians have been able to use off-label pharmaceuticals that have been previously proven safe, and in June 2020 HCQ was taken off the approved list.

That should make any reasonable person ask why. HCQ was a perfectly safe drug that had billions of doses given over the years to millions of people over the counter and even given away by governments for free. Then suddenly they make it illegal except in clinical trials, IIRC.

There is too much that stinks about this, top to bottom.