In China at the end of February researchers there had enough clinical data to recommend that the treatment be added to the nationwide list of standard treatments for the outbreak.
Fauci is behind in his reading, or hedging his bets since he just wants to end up looking good personally, and the anti-Trump press is doing everything they can to try to make Trump look bad.
Doctors don't need the FDA to do anything other than stay out of the way. Every MD and DO in the USA has the ability to prescribe drugs for off label use. At this point, barring any contraindications (pregnancy, etc.) a doctor in the USA who didn't try hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to save a COVID-19 patient is probably risking litigation.
You miss the point entirely.
A greedy lawyer son of a bitch will create from thin air circumstances allowing the pretense of a lawsuit against the doctor and perhaps the drug maker.
Both judges and doctor defense lawyers live off the greedy lawyer sons of bitches bringing the plaintiff law suits. Rather than give up their lucrative business, the defense lawyers taint them selves with the stench and do not even try to cause cessation
Unless we kill the lawyers, literally, not figuratively, the liability will exist.
True, but the health insurance companies will only pay for FDA approved protocols. Thusly, the doctor can prescribe an off label drug use, but the patient ends up paying a multi thousand dollar bill.