Posted on 04/05/2020 2:11:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come under increased pressure to lift his executive order prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or inpatient setting to treat the novel coronavirus.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he recently witnessed an elderly man with a high fever arrive at Mount Sinai Hospital, “and the first thing they did before they even talked to him was give him hydroxychloroquine.”
“Why is the governor banning it?” asked Mr. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Everything shows that it works.”
Touted by Mr. Trump, hydroxychloroquine has touched off a heated political and medical debate over whether it should be widely prescribed to fight the pandemic, with opponents arguing that the drug is unproven in treating COVID-19.
Mr. Giuliani said that “there’s a dispute as to whether it treats symptoms or cures the disease. But it works. And we don’t have the luxury right now for a perfect solution.”
In a March 23 executive order, Mr. Cuomo barred pharmacists from filling prescriptions for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, its next-generation derivative, except for FDA-approved uses, such as for treating malaria or lupus, or as part of clinical trials for COVID-19.
The next day, the Democratic governor announced that the Trump administration and FDA had accelerated deliveries of the drug to New York for experimental therapies aimed at treating the novel coronavirus, adding that “hospitals will start using that drug today.”
He followed up March 27 by amending his order to allow the drug to be prescribed for “patients in inpatient settings and acute settings; for residents in a subacute part of a skilled nursing facility; or as part of [a] study approved by an Institutional Review Board.”
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“I live on Long Island and many doctors are telling me that they want to prescribe this medication to their patients who test positive for COVID-19 – the disease caused by the coronavirus – but do NOT need the patient to come to a hospital,” Mr. Hannity said in a Saturday op-ed. “However, Cuomo’s executive order forbids pharmacies from filling the prescriptions.”
Those Cuomo people are real idiots.
I dunno ... this polio thing that Dr. Salk has come up with ... it seems kinda risky ...
Or in the alternate, show a NY'r filling the script in another state.
I’d wager that Fredo has received the forbidden Trump pills.
Democrats will let people die rather than validate anything Trump says. It’s their sickness.
Has anyone asked if his brother, Fredo, is taking Hydroxychloroquine?
Woah! I didn’t realize Cuomo had prohibited this in the first place.
Taking a preventative or a fast cure is the way the Brits survived malaria in their tropical colonies.
Why? Because Orange Man Bad! /s
Just frisk him.
So its "DEATH BEFORE THANKING TRUMP" madness raging in their souls.
I wonder if Gov. Cuomo is hoarding Hydroxychloroquine like Nevada Gov. Sisolak is?
Those Cuomo people are real idiots.
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they take on the personality of their leader.
maybe a couple contributory negligence manslaughter lawsuit will get his attention
andrew cuomo to cnn behind the scenes
“quick, cnn! get me 20 dancing squirrels! stat!”
“no, i don’t care if you have to steal them from upstate!”
The more that die and the longer this drags on, the likelier the Dem are to rid themselves of PTrump. It’s getting rid of Pence that’s the rub.
If the good Governor really wants to play doctor, he could play “epidemiologist” and turn of the NYC subway-the main “cornavirus vector” up there.
Otherwise he’s practicing medicine without a license in the State of New York
Most people (including myself) thought NYC was going to be the trail for the efficacy of the drugs. Little did we know that Cuomo joined the other rats and blocked it. If people die it’s better then Trump being right about anything.
Arrest Cuomo for being a danger to the public.
Fredo hoarding HCQ I’ll bet. Also doubt he is infected.
The subway is an incubator, Coronavirus will never end and that’s what the Democrats want.
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