Posted on 03/24/2020 7:29:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Nevada’s Governor Steve Sisolak (D) on Tuesday issued an emergency order barring the use of anti-malaria drugs such as chloroquine for Coronavirus patients.
Last week Sisolak shut down casinos and only kept open essential businesses like grocery stores and health care facilities.
In addition to barring the use of chloroquine for Coronavirus patients on Tuesday, Nevada’s governor also banned social gatherings of more than 10 people.
The Associated Press reported (emphasis our own):
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s governor on Tuesday night issued an emergency order banning gatherings of more than 10 people in the state indoors or outdoors, a more aggressive move to try to stop the spread of the coronavrius.
Sisolak said the order does not apply to private homes or the homeless, but includes places like social clubs, parks, libraries and sports fields.
Sisolak signed an emergency order earlier Tuesday barring the use of anti-malaria drugs for someone who has the coronavirus. The order restricting chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine came after President Donald Trump touted the medication as a treatment and falsely stated that the Food and Drug Administration had just approved the use of chloroquine to treat patients infected with coronavirus. Sisolak said in a statement that there’s no consensus among experts or Nevada doctors that the drugs can treat people with COVID-19.
Anyone who violates the order will be charged with at least a misdemeanor crime and it remains in place until April 16 (after Easter).
President Trump on Saturday expressed optimism about two drugs that he said could be “one of the biggest game changers” in medicine – hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
Hydroxychloroquine is a drug used in the treatment and prevention of malaria. Azithromycin is an antibiotic that is used to treat many different types of infections in the respiratory system, eyes, ears, and skin, as well as sexually transmitted diseases.
A 52-year-old Coronavirus victim recently said he expected to die but hydrochloroquine saved his life:
”An hour after an IV with the medicine, he says his heart felt like it was beating out of his chest. “They had to come in and get me calmed down and take care of me. I had another episode about two hours later where I just got to the point where I couldn’t breathe and my heart was pounding again so they gave me some Benadryl through the system and something else. I’m not sure what it was. It allowed me to go to sleep and when I woke up at exactly 4:45 in the morning, I woke up like nothing ever happened.”Miraculously, he’s since had no fever or pain, feels fine and he’s able to breathe again.
“To me, there was no doubt in mind that I wouldn’t make it until morning,” Giardinieri said. “So to me the drug saved my life. … I just want everyone to know there’s an option. You don’t have to just sit there and hydrate. There’s a medicine that’s working.”
But now Coronavirus patients in Nevada will not have access to these anti-malaria drugs because the governor said so.
He just did.
"You Keep Using That Word (can’t), I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"
“...The governor’s rule comes a day after a Phoenix-area man died and his wife was in critical condition from taking an additive used to clean fish tanks known as chloroquine phosphate, similar to the drug used to treat malaria.”
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I guess it never passed his DemocRAT lizard brain to ban the sale of fish tank cleaner.
This guy is a tyrant and should immediately be removed from office.
I read about lots of long range shooting ranges out in NV. I hear the populace is very independent and strong minded outside of Las Vegas. Having said that, if I was the Governor, I would hide from the Las Vegas populace.
Hope he wises up but he is a Dombacrat.
I knew Sissy was an idiot, but this is beyond description for stupidity.
If I needed these drugs I would take them, and have no fear of prosecution.
Just be certain to demand a jury trial.
The recall effort is unlikely to succeed, most of our state is hostage to Lost Wages.
But if this POS is not a one-term fluke I will have no choiced but to agree that our formerly great state is truly lost.
Let's hope Sisolak is the first to need the drug and that he does not get it. Let's also hope read MDs find that people with CoVid-19 also have malaria and treat the malaria in everyone but Sisolak who takes a rapid turn for the worse end then crumps. It would be a fitting ironic way to go for Mr. Air-Space.
Agreed! He should stay in Las Vegas with all the casino workers, waiters, waitresses and bartenders who lost everything when he shut their employers down.
For democrat politicians showing your undying hatred for Trump and his voters is the only thing that matters.
Pelosi proved it yesterday, victory for democrats is more important than the peasants.
I can’t imagine any doctor following this order, it would be malpractice.
“Why would he do such a thing?”
Because if/when it works, it will make Trump look good. We can’t have that!
It seems like a real stretch for a state to try to supersede the authority of the FDA.
Very challenging situations show how stupid some politicians are.
https://www.drugs.com/hydroxychloroquine-images.html
Someone should ask Nevada's medical boards whether physician licenses to practice will be revoked for prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine.
Did he not get the memo from the media that only the President can give medical advice ...sarc
Seriously I gotta believe this is fake news. Nobody can be THAT stupid. Oops, hold on, he is a democrat though
I question his legal authority to do this.
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I agree. The Off Label use of this drug isn’t something that is under the control of any Governor. That is an FDA managed use.
Not shocking at all. It’s a gamble. They want people to die so it can be blamed on Trump.
There are more than 10 people in an ER, hospital, urgent care clinic, grocery store, pharmacy, .... what an idiot AZ has elected. I am sure there are more than 10 in his security detail in his mansion, not including assistants, cooks, helpers and political hacks. Time for 10K to citizen arrest his dumb ass.
Well how about allowing the doctors treating patients decide that for themselves?
Doesnt this violate the recent right to try act?
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