Posted on 07/30/2020 11:35:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hydroxychloroquine has been touted by President Donald Trump as a way to treat and prevent the coronavirus. The Ohio pharmacy board planned to ban the drug as a COVID-19 treatment until Gov. Mike DeWine spoke up about it.
The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy has changed course on its ban of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as coronavirus treatments following the governor’s urging to do so.
Beginning Thursday, pharmacies, clinics and other medical institutions were to be prohibited from dispensing or selling the drugs to treat COVID-19, according to regulations issued by the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy. They could still be used in clinical trials, said Cameron McNamee, director of policy and communications for the board.
That regulation change has since been pulled back by the board though. Instead, the board now plans to re-examine the issue with the assistance of the State Medical Board of Ohio, clinical experts, and other stakeholders to determine its next steps, according to an announcement
The board’s shift came after Gov. Mike DeWine asked the state pharmacy board on Thursday morning to rescind its plan to ban hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as treatments for the virus.
DeWine said the decision of how to treat COVID-19 should instead be between patients and their doctors.
“The Board of Pharmacy and the State Medical Board of Ohio should revisit the issue, listen to the best medical science, and open the process up for comment and testimony from experts,” DeWine said in a prepared statement.
Hydroxychloroquine has been touted by President Donald Trump despite medical studies showing the drug to be ineffective at treating the disease. The drug may also cause serious cardiac side effects, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
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Thus showing itself to be a politically motivated fraud. The Board needs to be disbanded and all personnel returned to the private sector. All those with medical degrees need to be de-licensed. Obviously they put their politics before public safety.
MAKE HCQ AND ZINC SULFATE OTC DRUGS AND STOP THIS PANDEMIC IMMEDIATELY. IT WOULD ALSO TAKE FOOLS LIKE DEWINE OUT OF THE EQUATION...........
Mr. Smith, MR. SMITH! CODE BLUE.... CODE BLUE....
Pharmacists are not MD’s nor a regulatory body.
They have no authority to decide anything like this.
Pharmacists now are mainly bureaucrats and pill counters.
yup
this wholemthing has been about making money, politics, and training the population to be controlled.
“...Thus showing itself to be a politically motivated fraud. The Board needs to be disbanded and all personnel returned to the private sector. All those with medical degrees need to be de-licensed. Obviously they put their politics before public safety....”
Exactly. This whole virus BS is being used politically with no end in sight...well, maybe in November...LOL.
The families of any who have passed away because of this BS need to file a class-action against that board and sue the individual board members that supported the ban to start with for all they’re worth.
It’s a shame a potent well-regarded drug that’s been around for dozens of years has been politicized out the wazoo.
Solution, IMHO: the FDA should make HCQ an over the counter drug. That would put n end to the politicization.
The board members that voted for the ban should be cancelled and forced to resign.
How much money did they get from Soros, the Dems and the drug companies who are pushing the super expensive new drugs for coronavirus?
The Ohio State Pharmacy Board need to be matched off in chains and cast into a deep dungeon and the keys thrown away.
Personally, I’d throw them in jail for corruption, and attempted murder of thousands of coronavirus patients for political purposes.
Agree
Trump needs to sign an executive order making HCQ an over the counter drug. It’s been like that in most sub Saharan African countries with very high incidence of malaria for decades.
well, they gave it the ol’ college try ...
Because of political arrogance and greed, tens of thousands of Americans have lost their lives. I hope some days there will be a book written that names names. Unfortunately, these people are without consciences.
Trump says, “drink water”
Media interpretation, “Trump wants us to drown”
“ clinical trials” will kill people who are given placebos
Is that ethical?
Will the trials use the combo protocol that has been used successfully in evidence-based practice? Failed Trials have not only failed to do so, they have massively overdosed and killed people.
Will the treatment begin, outpatient,within 5 days of symptoms or exposure?
Once you pass this point and are hospitalized, treatment is far less likely to work because the viral load has begun to overwhelm the body.
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