Posted on 05/18/2022 8:52:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Missouri lawmakers passed legislation that prevents state licensing boards from disciplining doctors who prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Sponsored by Rep. Brenda Kay Shields (R-Mo.), HB 2149 also bars pharmacists from questioning doctors or disputing patients regarding the usage of such drugs and their efficacy.
With a convincing 130–4 vote in the House, HB 2149 passed both chambers on May 12 and currently heads to the office of Gov. Mike Parson to be potentially signed into law.
“The board shall not deny, revoke, or suspend, or otherwise take any disciplinary action against, a certificate of registration or authority, permit, or license required by this chapter for any person due to the lawful dispensing, distributing, or selling of ivermectin tablets or hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets for human use in accordance with prescriber directions,” reads the draft of the bill (pdf).
It adds, “A pharmacist shall not contact the prescribing physician or the patient to dispute the efficacy of ivermectin tablets or hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets for human use unless the physician or patient inquires of the pharmacist about the efficacy of ivermectin tablets or hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets.”
Critics of the bill have noted that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not given approval for usage of the drugs. Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have been divisive drugs and politically polarized throughout the pandemic.
“But, nevertheless, the Missouri legislature has chosen to ‘own the libs’ by issuing a gag order against every pharmacist in this state from offering their medical opinion on taking either one of those medications—even if it could kill their patient,” wrote former Democratic nominee Lindsey Simmons in a May 12 Twitter post.
Although 22 countries across the world have approved the use of ivermectin in treating COVID-19, the FDA maintains that the current data show the drug to be ineffective. Large doses can be dangerous, it says.
A recent study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases analyzed a national federated database of adults that compared ivermectin with the FDA-approved COVID-19 medication, remdesivir.
“After using propensity score matching and adjusting for potential confounders, ivermectin was associated with reduced mortality vs remdesivir,” researchers wrote. “To our knowledge, this is the largest association study of patients with COVID-19, mortality, and ivermectin.”
According to The Associated Press, Missouri state Rep. Patty Lewis, a Democrat, agreed to the bill to satisfy a group of conservatives in the Senate. She added that the bill will not change anything significantly as medical boards do not engage in punishing doctors who prescribe drugs legally.
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Feb. 10, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.govDiscovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world.
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There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people.
Greifens gonna win the senate nomination-interesting.
I’m a few miles from the MO state line - I need to find a doctor there who will prescribe either drug if needed.
From what I’ve read and doctors have told me this is a necessary bill.
Started taking it the day I found out I was exposed to Covid.
A few days later had a fever one night and had to blow my nose a few times. No biggy.
Friends who were exposed when I was and didn’t take it were in bed for a few days. Still no biggy.
Davos-19.
Try this site....it can usually help you find someone that can get you the help you need.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
The same agenda-driven people who ridiculed those using Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine for Covid are the ones right now giving crap to parents using the simple, homemade baby formula that just about everyone used and relied upon before 1990 or so.
These are incredibly-evil, manipulative people we’ve been dealing with.
I have a prescription for hydrochloroquin. Diagnosis isn’t covid.Took four years to get a diagnosis. Thanks Fauci, WHO, CDC, Rogue America, Marxists.
Off label use of ivermectin is NOT illegal.
Ivermectin isn’t one of Deep State’s coveted countermeasures, use of which confers liability protection to the prescriber.
Three guesses why health systems were threatening docs with pink slips if they prescribed something that wasn’t a covered countermeasure.
Going after any doc brave enough to prescribe ivermectin has ZERO to do with public health.
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