The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has blocked Florida from using monoclonal antibody treatments for covid patients, despite it being proven to be an effective treatment against the virus.
The Florida Department of Health announced that the FDA has essentially shut down statewide treatment sites.
The Biden administration seems bent on preventing Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, from having access to any treatments, as this has been an ongoing issue and in December, the Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, accused Biden of intentionally stopping life-saving treatments.
Governor DeSantis published his thoughts on social media, stating:
“Without a shred of clinical data to support its decision, the Biden Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for life-saving monoclonal antibody treatments”. He said.
Adding that, “Floridians have benefitted from the state’s treatment sites and their access to treatments shouldn’t be denied based on the whims of a floundering president.”
BIDEN DOESN’T WANT AMERICANS TO GET TREATMENT
Lawmakers in New Hampshire are about to pass a bill which would make it easier for those who have covid, to access ivermectin, a largely demonized, but proven to be effective treatment for the virus.
The bill would allow pharmacists to dispense ivermectin by way of standing orders.
The bill is expected to get enough support from the majority Republican committee, to send it to the GOP led House of Representatives, who have already supported other covid bills, including banning both government and private vax mandates across New Hampshire.
State Representative Leah Cushman, who is also a registered nurse, said, “I have absolutely no doubt lives will be saved if human grade Ivermectin was available to COVID patients.”
Amendments to the bill include a notice for Ivermectin dispensed for human use to be considered “off label” use for covid treatments. It has also been proposed that a state tracking system be used to record any adverse reactions to the drug.
A similar bill has been introduced in Pennsylvania by Rep. Dawn Keefer, which would allow doctors to prescribe Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine sulfate as a treatment, but currently the bill is still with the committee.
The FDA, however, is working to ensure that alternative treatments remain scarce or unavailable, saying there is no data to show that either drug is an effective treatment and they used multiple health care providers to argue against the bill.
A retired general surgeon, Dr. Nick Perencevich, said that a patient in New Hampshire should only be given Ivermectin as an alternative, if they were part of a clinical trial.
While Dr. David Levine from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center stated that Ivermectin is “dangerous and totally out of line with the standard of medical care around the world.”
Dr. Levine even went as far as to say that he would take legal action against any health professional that prescribed Ivermectin to himself or his family.
Dr. Paul Marik, a neurocritical care doctor, contradicted his colleagues when he stated that Ivermectin is one of the safest drugs on the market and pointed out that Ivermectin for use in humans, is approved in 79 other countries.
Dr. Marik also noted that since it’s discovery in 1987, over 3.7 billion doses had been given to patients to use as an anti-parasitic drug.
“So somehow Japanese people, Indian people, Brazilian people can tolerate it safely but it’s toxic in Americans. You have to be kidding,” he said.
Another reason for the FDA demonizing the use of Ivermectin, is the covid vaccine emergency use authorization, which relies on there being no other effective treatments for COVID-19 available to maintain its EUA.
