Posted on 03/24/2020 12:28:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Monday evening, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released an executive order that effectively ended pharmacists’ ability to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for use in treating Covid-19, and prohibited any experimental use of the drug outside of state-approved clinical trials
Of coarse he did, the death toll is not high enough yet
I’m waiting for Dem politicians, Trump hating celebrities and the MSM to publicly declare that they will NOT take any measures that the President endorses. And especially any type of medical treatment he and his team sponsors.
Since when do pharmacists prescribe drugs?
The language states that you need to be diagnosed with a positive corona virus test in order to get the prescription.
You can’t get it because you think you have it or just have the sniffles.
This helps keep the supply towards people who really do need it and not to people who are going to hoard it, take it when they really didn’t need it or people who will try to sell it on the black market, etc.
Nobody is denying any doctor from prescribing this to a patient with a confirmed case of CoronaVirus.
Or you just read fake news, it never happened
Here is the language:
No pharmacist shall dispense hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine except when written as prescribed for an FDA-approved indication; or as part of a state approved clinical trial related to COVID-19 for a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19, with such test result documented as part of the prescription. No other experimental or prophylactic use shall be permitted, and any permitted prescription is limited to one fourteen day prescription with no refills.
Here is the executive order:
Nobody is denying any doctor from prescribing this to a patient with a confirmed case of CoronaVirus.
Not necessarily. A doctor prescribing it outside of a state approved clinical trial will be denied.
So the question is what exactly is a state approved clinical trial. Who can participate? Which patients and which doctors? If it's limited to a small number of subjects then it's a big problem.
But if they throw it open to all patients who test positive and any doctor who's treating them, adding only a requirement that the doctor track the progress and outcome, then that's basically okay. I suspect this will be the case but so far I haven't seen it stated anywhere.
Hydroxychloroquine pills from legitimate manufacturers look like this:
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