Posted on 12/14/2021 2:09:19 AM PST by Libloather
HARRISBURG, Pa. - As more Pennsylvanians are diagnosed with COVID-19, families of those infected are ready to give alternative treatments a try to save dying loved ones. But the path to experiment controversial medicines is not an easy one.
On Monday, Rep. Dawn Keefer, who serves York and Cumberland Counties spoke in front of the state health committee on the benefits of House Bill 1741. The bill, written by Rep. Keefer, would give doctors the approval to prescribe off-label drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients.
"We need to give everyone more resources and effort into treatment, preventative and outpatient treatment as we are the vaccines," said Keefer.
Ivermectin is FDA approved to treat parasites in animals and to treat parasitic worms in humans. However, the FDA has said the drug has not been approved to treat COVID-19 and can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and even death if taken in large doses.
Hydroxychloroquine is FDA approved to treat chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, systemic lupus erythematosus in adults, and rheumatoid arthritis. However, the FDA issued a caution against using the drug to treat COVID-19 as it causes heart rhythm problems in patients.
The FDA warnings have caused some hospitals to keep the two drugs off their treatment plan to help fight COVID-19. Still, some doctors who believe the drugs can work say institutions are blocking them from being able to freely treat their patients.
"My purpose here today is to rebuild the physician-patient covenant and prevent physicians' hands from being tied," said Dr. Chaminie Wheeler, a doctor in the Bucks County area.
However, other medical professionals say monoclonal treatments and vaccines are the only two treatments for COVID-19.
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Just read - 50 tubes of horse paste all at once and problems pop up. I wonder what a 50x dosage of the 'vaccine' would do.
A tube of horse paste is 5 doses or more for a 200 pound individual.
Yep. And all for about $10.
Anyone know how many mg per pound for human dose?
The fact that this has to be a law is criminal. The law should call for the arrest of those who stopped it in the first place.
Came here to say the same thing. The fact that permission has to be granted to doctors to care for patients is a chilling turn of events in this saga. We’ve summarily handed over everything to government.
“Please, sir, may I have some more?”
Same thought.
We have lost control of our healthcare between a patient and doctor.
Correct. That is the crux of the argument. Insurance and government sit in between. Pure evil.
“Allow” doctors?
If I remember correctly, prophylactic dosage varies from a 1:1 ratio, dawn to a 3:2 ratio (multiply your weight by 1.5 then use that as the tube’s weight dose), taken once a week.
For active treatment, it’s two or three times that, taken maybe three times the first week, then once a week after?
The tube lists the dosage for a horse being dewormed.
A person taking it will vary from slightly less than that to two or three times the dosage.
“” However, the FDA issued a caution against using the drug to treat COVID-19 as it causes heart rhythm problems in patients.””
-Suddenly, they care about cardiac damage ! ????
Docs can do that now.
The reason they don’t is that liability protection provided by the PREP Act is only for covered countermeasures. And Ivermectin ain’t one.
If prescribers require a bribe, and apparently they do, then PA ought to think about doing something similar at the state level. And/or getting their Congress critters to propose it on the national level.
but it wouldn't make money for the politicians and the MSM!
A waste of time. Gov. Wolf will veto the bill. End of story.
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