Posted on 04/04/2020 3:40:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, Democrat, had a kneejerk reaction to President Trump's optimism about a malaria drug that might be an effective treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus. Trump was hopeful about the drug, so anti-Trump Democrats like Sisolak were against it. Gov. Sisolak banned (hydroxy)chloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, ostensibly over concern of hoarders stockpiling the medicine and causing shortages for patients who use the drug for other ailments like Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis. But while the governor restricted the public from receiving the potentially life-saving drug, Nevada's Department of Corrections began stockpiling the drug for prisoners.
(Via 360 News Las Vegas)
According to sources at the drug maker, Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc, Nevada prisons ordered a large number of their anti-malaria Hydroxychloroquine drug under the name, Plaquenli. Nevada prisons has literally ZERO cases of prisoners infected with the COVID 19 virus to date. The Nevada Board of Pharmacies and the Governor claimed the rule barring doctors from prescribing the drug outside of hospitals was to stop hoarding. After Sisolak’s ban went into effect, the State Prison hoarded the drug in a mass just in case they had break out.Gov. Sisolak refused to reverse his order even after the FDA issued an emergency order earlier this week approving the drug for use against COVID 19.
Unbelievable. And Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is no better. When reports that (hydroxy)chloroquine showed promising signs as a safe treatment for the coronavirus, and after President Trump expressed his optimism over the drug's efficacy, Whitmer moved immediately to block Michiganders from gaining access to the potentially life-saving treatment. Both governors cited concerns over shortages, but alternative medicines are available to treat lupus. And if they haven't noticed, we're kind of in the middle of a pandemic.
Drugmakers have already ramped up production of (hydroxy)chloroquine in response to increased demand, and people still need a prescription from a doctor to obtain the medicine. The FDA has now issued emergency-use authorization of (hydroxy)chloroquine for COVID-19, so the focus at this point should be making more of this promising drug, not restricting its use amid a global pandemic for which we currently have no vaccine.
Maybe he is planning a trade with Cuomo for ventilators.
A new trend rat governors attacking their own state, Cuomo executive order confiscating ventilators for down state use, this schlep hoarding the drug
i’m opening up a conservation enclave for the much endangered Honest Politician.
There are few left and they will soon be extinct without help
An order of Chloroquine is not unreasonable. How large?
CDC reported in 2005 that chloroquine was effective in treating coronavirus.
Doctors using it in this epidemic report 100% success in treating their patients.
But its cheap, and available, and effective, so lets wait a couple of years for a billion dollar vaccine.
Governor Sleestak
Typical Democrat. Life saving drugs for murderers, molesters, bums, third world invaders, and the rest of the dregs of the gene pool, and to hell with normal working people who abide by the rules and pay their own way like civilized human beings.
Soooooooooo predictable.
Now frisk the Cuomos and Fauci and Birx
Disgusting.
India has ordered 100 MILLION doses of the drug; obviously they think it works.
How many has the US ordered? (Are we still waiting on Dr. Fauci?)
Piss off Nevada, you elected the piece of shit. Eat it.
Looks like a mob boss. In Nevada? No way...
I am beginning to believe that an epic Biblical size example of God’s revenge is going to descend on some people. Perhaps we are seeing it now and Pogo was prophetic.
This would end a GOP politician’s career.
Fauci: the first doctor uninterested in a cure.
What a scumbucket.
“Nevada’s Department of Corrections began stockpiling the drug for prisoners....”
And for himself, friends and family. Filthy democrat.
A rat is a rat is a rat.
Barr said he would arrest hoarders. Let’s see.
I agree!
“Looks like a mob boss.”
Hollyweird could not have
made a better choice.
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