[[prescribe to adolescent and adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19, as appropriate,]]
“As Appropriate” is a very broad blanket- open to interpretation- people are dying without it- they aren’t even being given the consideration of whether their early case requires ‘appropriate treatment’
That’s not what this action said. The group this statement applies to is “adolescent and adult patients hospitalized”.
This argument is not about what should be appropriate, it is about what this action said. I would agree that it would be appropriate to give this treatment to patients outside the hospital, but that is not in this action from the FDA.