Posted on 06/10/2022 4:32:53 PM PDT by blam
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 Food and Drug Administration is facing legal action over statements made about ivermectin and its use against COVID-19. (Sonis Photography/Shutterstock)
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.
It needs to be taken in conjunction with zinc and as early as possible for best results
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That’s HCQ....a zinc ionophore...as far as I know it makes no difference if zinc is used in conjunction or not. IVM works as an antiviral by itself.
Having said that the best way to go is IVM AND HCQ with zinc....worked like a charm for me and I only had the paste variety...
We need a January 6 Committee-style report on the USA medical repression of any effective early treatment for Covid-19.
Anyone here have a reliable estimate of how many Americans were killed by respirators?
Thousands died because they were forced to lie on their back after being intubated.
Every American child who has asthma knows that breathing in bed is most difficult and most stressful when you lie on your back.
Excellent. The FDA is just a proxy for Big Pharma anyway. Both are thoroughly corrupt.
While I found the treatment itself to be largely ineffective, I am glad this tort is being brought. The FDA acted illegally by interfering with physicians prescriptive authority. I think the state boards who took license action should likewise become defendants as they acted illegally.
The question is what is the allegation? Restraint of trade? Tortuous interference? What is the remedy? Hard to prove economic damages and I suppose that punitive damages won’t apply? I agree with the tort but would like to read the complaint. Anyone know how to find r the actual complaint?
Were you diagnosing and treating patients with COVID-19?
Sure, let’s go with both tortuous & tortious interference.
My Doctor gave me a prescription for Ivermectin with 2000mg. Vitamin D3 in a capsule. Compounded at a pharmacy for my body weight.
It worked for me. I had not taken any shots.
This lawsuit is about 2 years too late.
Dr. Quackster,
You going to practice law next? At least you seem to be finally admitting that sometimes Ivermectin works. Or did I misread what you said.
Have you come around on how the clot-shot is not a real vaccine? Or that it is not safe and effective? Or that the cardiac damage is real? Real as in statistically significant and excess deaths.
Good to see you survived the most recent wave of injections.
I forgot vitamin D, very important.
It worked for me. 3 hours and boom - like it never happened.
100% correct on that.....
Com’on Honest Nigerian, the good doctor may honestly believe the opinions he states, and the medical trust must stand shoulder-to-shoulder together no matter how many people they kill. I have a doctor who told my wife she cured elderly members of of her family with ivermectin and cries at night thinking how many died unnecessarily because they weren’t treated. Let the members of the medical trust hope they don’t have to answer to a “higher court.”
This is a silly lawsuit.
The FDA’s position that they have taken on IVM and COVID is probably wrong - but it is State Medical Boards that are disciplining, or not, over prescribing IVM for COVID, not the FDA.
The FDA is a PERMISSIVE agency. For example, they licensed hydroxychloroquine in 1955, giving people who states allow to prescribe PERMISSION to do so. But FDA does not and never has restricted prescribing to the original indication.
And because Trump recommended it, that’s when it got banned.
The problem is the PREP Act, isn’t it.
Congress refused to make Ivermectin a covered countermeasure.
Since it wasn’t, no liability protection existed for prescribers.
The real question is why was Ivermectin left off that list.
Early stage covid, it is very effective, late stage not as effective. It should be used with Zinc and Vit D3.
Amirite, gassie?
cc: mommy
Yes I was absolutely diagnosing and treating covid patients. Additionally I had access to monoclonals on demand. So once I saw several ivermectin failures I just went right to monoclonals and had much better success.
I was merely querying what is the allegations of law to bring a tort. I would love to read the complaint. I am glad the lawsuit was brought because as I always have, support the autonomous decision making of physicians.
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