Posted on 01/20/2021 8:13:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Certain media outlets and social media circles have erupted with claims that the American Medical Association has reversed its stance against prescribing hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump had touted, as a COVID-19 treatment. But a closer look at the documents reveals that’s not correct.
Did the American Medical Association quietly rescind its opposition to prescribing hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients?
No, says the American Medical Association. The AMA reiterated in a tweet Wednesday that its “position remains unchanged.”
The claim arose from a proposal, Resolution 509, to rescind the AMA’s position statement on hydroxychloroquine. It was presented for consideration to the AMA House of Delegates, the organization’s policy-making body, in a special meeting in November. However, the 690 physicians and medical students who make up the House of Delegates rejected the proposal.
Instead, the House of Delegates reaffirmed current AMA policy supporting the decision-making authority of a physician on off-label uses of pharmaceuticals. The AMA, the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists issued a joint statement in April on this topic that said, “Novel off-label use of FDA-approved medications is a matter for the physician’s or other prescriber’s professional judgment.”
“At the same time, we caution hospitals, health systems, other entities, and individual practitioners that no medication has been FDA-approved for use in COVID-19 patients,” the AMA added in its joint statement.
The proposal argued that the AMA’s position calling on doctors to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine contradicts the policy that the AMA later reaffirmed. The AMA, however, rejected that argument.
In other words, the claims were based on a proposal that was not adopted.
Who listens to the ama?
Ping for your interest
no medication has been FDA-approved for use in COVID-19 patients,
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This was essential for FDA EUA approval. AMA is pro-vaccine. Cant have an approved therapy to interfere with that.
Even with vaccine approval, why take a limited tested vaccine when safe approved therapies are available.
All about the benjamins, people’s lives and the Hippocratic oath be damned.
And so the quackery continues as deaths rise and hospitals get slammed. A dark epoch in US medicine.
The vast majority of practicing phsicians do not belong to the AMA or pay any attention to it pronouncements. In case you hadn’t noticed almost all organized “medical” associations have been taken over by vile leftists.
The AMA is leftist and leftists lie. It would be a fools folly to waste time reading or listening to anything they have to say.
like NEJM this is run by Karens and Trannys,
NOT PHYSICIANS or SURGEONS,
dedicated to eliminating cancer testing
for those above 60 yo (except themselves, of course).
Exactly what I was alluding to. Sort of like “JAMA” artilcles. Meh. But there are plenty of dumbasses out here who are impressed when they hear crap like that.
A good friend my age 82, was admitted to our local hospital with a + Covid diagnosis. Besides his age, he is overweight and was in the hospital about a year ago with pneumonia.
He was admitted last ThursdayFriday and ended in a portable Covid ICU unit.
Besides standard treatment he received Remdesivir —
He was sent home to his 2nd floor apartment on Tuesday.
My wife talked to him briefly on Tuesday. He is a little weak and doing okay.
President Trump was given his first dose of remdesivir Oct. 2, and he will be given a five-day course, CNN reported. Remdesivir, made by Gilead (who gave it the brand name of Veklury), was granted emergency use authorization by the FDA on May 1 after a study showed it caused a 31 percent faster recovery time compared to a placebo.
Remdesivir is an intravenous drug that works by targeting the system coronaviruses use to replicate themselves. It has been previously tested for Ebola, but hasn’t been officially approved in any country. The FDA expanded its emergency use authorization for remdesivir Aug. 28, allowing it to be used on all hospitalized patients. It had previously only been authorized for those on ventilators or with low blood oxygen levels.
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