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Kansas Bill Would Force Pharmacists to Fill Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine as Off-Label COVID Treatment
Yahoo News! ^ | Wed, January 26, 2022 | Jason Tidd

Posted on 01/26/2022 4:36:52 PM PST by nickcarraway

Jason Tidd, Topeka Capital-Journal Wed, January 26, 2022, 10:06 AM·8 min read A group of Kansas politicians tasked with steering public health policy are pushing to allow doctors to prescribe unproven treatments and preventives for COVID-19 without any potential for responsibility.

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned against using ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, some Republican senators want to shield doctors from legal liability and board discipline for prescribing the drugs.

Ivermectin is used to treat parasitic worms, especially in livestock. Hydroxychloroquine, sometimes abbreviated as HCQ, is a malaria drug that is also used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Neither drug has proven to be save and effective for treating or preventing COVID-19.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: covid19; ivermectin; kansas
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1 posted on 01/26/2022 4:36:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Good.


2 posted on 01/26/2022 4:38:03 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: nickcarraway

Why does the FDA want more deaths?
What happened to Right To Try?


3 posted on 01/26/2022 4:39:40 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: nickcarraway

Many drugs are used to treat humans AND animals. It is just that the quality and/or dosages may vary.


4 posted on 01/26/2022 4:41:15 PM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: nickcarraway

Let’s see if Kansas has the cajones to put this bill into law.

If they do, then the next bill should deny the State Medical Boards from punishing any doctor who prescribes ivermectin.


5 posted on 01/26/2022 4:46:02 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: TomGuy

The COVID vaccines have been used to treat animals.


6 posted on 01/26/2022 4:46:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“Neither drug has proven to be save”....

Wow, great command of the English language.


7 posted on 01/26/2022 4:47:09 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

They can’t even write their lies properly.


8 posted on 01/26/2022 4:53:18 PM PST by curious7
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To: traderrob6

Someone turned-off Syntax Checker.


9 posted on 01/26/2022 4:55:10 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway
Gee, no bias, here.

So much better to adhere to the CDC's protocol and if sick, isolate until you can't breathe, then go to the ER, where they will put you on Remdesivir and destroy your kidneys, then a ventilator until you die.

10 posted on 01/26/2022 5:01:07 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: curious7

It was a lie too as both Ivermectin and HCQ are some of the most prescribed medicines on this earth and have proven to be “SAFE” for decades.


11 posted on 01/26/2022 5:03:17 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: nickcarraway

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12 posted on 01/26/2022 5:07:36 PM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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Off label treatment is legal under all circumstances, EXCEPT the use of ivermectin or HCQ for COVID - maybe.

Now. The fact that I CAN prescribe anything for any reason does NOT mean it can’t be malpractice - if I gave you amoxicillin to treat your breast cancer, I couldn’t defend myself on the basis that it was “legal”.

It’s further complicated in the case of COVID because there are 50 states and 50 sets of rules, and most of them aren’t “laws”, per se. Most of them are regulations issued by State agencies with authority over pharmacy or medical practice.

Many hospitals, mine included, used a lot of HCQ from March through June or July, 2020. It was perfectly legal.

I imagine the use of ivermectin is legal as well, unless a Legislature has made it illegal by passing a law. Hundreds and hundreds of off-label prescriptions are written every day, and I’ve never heard of it being illegal.


13 posted on 01/26/2022 5:10:41 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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Went to my doc for my yearly physical recently and she somehow knew I filled a script for Ivermectim written back in January by a friend of mine.

She said to me “Ivermectin is horse paste and causes blindness!!!”

I gave her a looooong lecture on Covid and it’s treatment. (I’m a doc and she knows that!!)

I will NEVER step foot in her office again. What a major idiot.


14 posted on 01/26/2022 5:13:54 PM PST by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

So is penicillin.

Do we now consider penicillin horse paste?


15 posted on 01/26/2022 5:18:32 PM PST by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

Ivermectin should be over the counter. Oh, wait...it is at Tractor Supply.


16 posted on 01/26/2022 5:25:04 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, good! You still need to convince your indoctrinated Doc that you need it.


17 posted on 01/26/2022 5:30:47 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: nickcarraway

This gaslighting article fails to mention that the vaccine companies are also legally immune from harmful consequences of use of their vaccines ... and their products are mandatory for millions of people.


18 posted on 01/26/2022 5:47:01 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Ivermectin was developed by Merck in 1980 to treat human river blindness. It was not developed for animals unless you listen to CNN and the rest.


19 posted on 01/26/2022 5:52:44 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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"What's the treatment for river blindness?

The recommended treatment is ivermectin, which will need to be given every 6 months for the life span of the adult worms (i.e., 10–15 years) or for as long as the infected person has evidence of skin or eye infection. Ivermectin kills the larvae and prevents them from causing damage but it does not kill the adults.?

20 posted on 01/26/2022 5:54:55 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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