Posted on 04/12/2020 5:59:12 PM PDT by rintintin
MADISON (WKOW) -- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has organized a letter from physicians to push President Donald Trump to increase access to the Malaris drug Hydroxychloroquine.
In his letter, he urges the President to remove restrictions that would allow patients to try the drug early in the course of their COVID-19 diagnosis.
The first request is for the President to remove FDA Emergency Use Authorization restriction that states hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) from the Strategic National Stockpile are only approved "for certain hospitalized patients. "
Johnson also requests in the letter that President Trump issues an executive order to prohibit governors from restricting the drug to only hospitalized patients, and stop state medical boards and state pharmacy boards from retaliating against doctors and pharmacists prescribing and dispensing HCQ and CQ off-label for early treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.
As of Friday morning, 776 practicing physicians had agreed to sign the letter. Johnson continues to collect signatures.
Read the full letter below:
Dear Mr. President:
We, the undersigned practicing physicians, urgently ask that you take two steps to help us treat patients according to our best ability and medical judgment, using the clinical and basic science data we already have on the effectiveness of certain established medicines in this war against COVID-19: ...
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He’s right. Keep the pressure on.
Even a doctor should be able to take time to learn a teeny bit of civics.
The Federal Government does not run the state boards.
Worldwide there are 1.85 million reported cases of Covid-19. Of those 422,000 have recovered. Of those 422,000 people how many recovered without Hydroxychloroquine?? How many of the 33,000 cases in the U.S. listed as recovered did so without Hydroxychloroquine? How many of the 114,100 people who died received Hydroxychloroquine before they died? How many of the 22,000 U.S. dead received it?
What’s a “Malaris drug”?
This is what needs to be done!! NOW!
From what I read, most have to be in the hospital to receive it and given at an almost last resort,so many may have received it too late...
Make Hydroxychloroquine over the counter, like aspirin. Ever been to a Mexican Pharmacy?
The AMA, the pharmacy boards, medical insurance companies for profit (as opposed to not for profit), are like the NEA and ABA; old organizations that only exist to funnel money to their members at the expense of people who cannot afford their existence on the paltry sum of money they make (after they have been raped by the tax system that favors the wealthy with all the loop holes and handouts) to support their families. These organization all need to be band from existence and condemned to the dust heap of history!
What’s a “Malaris drug”?
Obviously a drug u take when u get Malaris!
Indeed, it is OTC in many countries. Just not here. Too much regulation. A drug with such a safety profile has no business being so highly regulated.
I’d bet more people die from Tylenol overdose than from HQC.
America is suffering from a big brother approach to medicine.
Time to change our medical system.
Ron he has already done a lot of that, where have you been?
Some people are allergic to Tylenol in a regular dose.
No reason why many drugs shouldn’t be OTC.
Every person who wants it should be able to buy it OTC and have it in their medicine cabinets along with a self covid test kit. Responsible personal healthcare.
EXACTLY! Trump needs to reduce the over-regulation of medicines and medical supplies. It’s all about greed and the nanny-state. People need to be individually responsible and it will lower costs AND lead to greater innovation or unexpected results.
For example, why in ****do I need a prescription to get contact lens? In Czech Republic contacts are considered a medical supply item anyone get without a prescription.
You can get reading glasses in the 99 cent store but need an optometrist for contact lenses. Why? Because the AMA and similar groups are a cartel that lobbies government to protect their interests and limit the supply and keep prices high.
What’s a “Malaris drug”?
A typo. The “a” and the “s” are next to each other on the keyboard.
Improper fitting contact lens can cause hypoxia, infection and blindness.
That may have something to do with needing a script.
Coincidence. A friend died yesterday from taking too much tylenol. She had a headache for 10 days and ended up with liver failure. 46 years old, sad.
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