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.
You sure can! He said you can. Do you have a home?
“”Sisolak said the order does not apply to private homes or the homeless,””
Couldn’t he just say that he is pregnant and seeks an abortion using drugs that are known to kill??
How does he have the right to do that?
Nailed it!
I don’t believe a governor has the legal power through an executive order to stop a doctor from prescribing a lawful, unscheduled medication for a patient.
Incredible. An act of pure spite.
There’s that joke that if Trump found a cure for cancer the Democrats would oppose it. Well, this is basically that.
I know but his own residents will be the ones that will die. It’s also super easy to call him out on it b/c he’s not a doctor and not qualified to making such a decision. He is going to look like an idiot when it DOES work and his constituents don’t have access to it.
That'd be thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people in NV.
Hold onto that stuff. Right now it's nice to have for painful finger joints, but you'll be needing it to cheat the undertaker.
Scratch a democrat find a fascist.
How?
Privacy right
If you can kill babies you can take this medicine
TDS is real and the governor obviously has a severe case of it.
FDA has approved it for compassionate use. I can see some regs to prevent hoarding but outright ban seem heartless for those who have no other option.
I get my medical from the Reno VA. Will the VA provide these drugs and if so will the state of Nevada stop the treatment?
You can’t give the homeless an exemption. If they can congregate, so can I.
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In fact, it would be important to get the homeless people off the street—they are a public health menace even without this virus.
Is this little tyrant ignorant and petty?
Or is he evil.
All of the above?
Remind me to stay out of Nevada.
Question for you: Do you use it fairly often? Or just when pain flares up? The reason I’m asking is I’m wondering if you have it in your system due to fairly regular use and, if so, if you are also protecting yourself from the virus.
Someone has already mentioned that it would be interesting to study people regularly using the drug for arthritis to see if they were coming down with CoVid-19 at the same rate as others, or if they were underrepresented (which I would expect).
Not a chance , hell , he may not live the week
This ain’t a liberal conservative thing
This is a life and death thing
this ignorant fool is completely F-ing insane ...
What is that they say? You get the government you deserve...
Too bad the political-minority, in so many places, must suffer the fools within their electorate.
> Is this the kind of move that would typically motivate large masses of people to march into the streets and overrun executive government offices and residences?
They’ll have to do it in groups of nine.
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