When a drug is approved for certain illnesses after extensive trials it is often discovered it is good for other illnesses. The drug companies often will not do the extensive and costly trials for a new indication and in particular if the drug is now generic and cheap as is Ivermectin and HCQ. Both are dirt cheap. However, licensed physicians are entitled to prescribe these drugs for indications that are off label.
Our Federal Government and some State Governments went after these physicians with legal actions when they were practicing medicine that was perfectly legal.
It is all about control.
Ivermectin was also left off Fedzilla’s list of the PREP Act’s covered countermeasures, use of which accused liability protection.
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https://www.marsh.com/us/services/casualty/insights/covid-19-liability-immunity-under-prep-act.html