Lawyers Helping to Let Doctors Be Doctors
A growing number of state Attorneys General – Nebraska, Louisiana, South Carolina and now Oklahoma – are moving to protect physicians’ ability to use off-label prescribing in the treatment of COVID-19. In his encouraging public statement, Oklahoma’s Attorney General John O’Connor said his office would not allow medical boards to prevent doctors prescribing ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. “I stand behind doctors who believe it is in their patients’ best interests to receive ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.”
This is a huge win for doctors and patients. Just like our long-standing advocacy for early treatment of COVID, the FLCCC has advocated for public officials to let doctors be doctors since the beginning of the pandemic.
Big week this one. First, on early treatment, the CDC finally puts out a graphic.. advocating for early treatment. Wait. What? Check it out:
I was pumped… until I realized this was just a launch of their PR campaign to promote Merck’s ineffective and mutagenic molnupiravir along with Pfizer’s pricey and poisonous paxlovid (please realize that those descriptors are scientifically proven and not “opinion”). Having barely lived through the FDA’s PR campaign against IVM and HCQ, I now have to watch the CDC’s absurd PR campaign championing novel, barely tested Big Pharma concoctions. Man are the PHA’s good at messaging (PHA = public health agency or “Pharma Held Agency”)… you decide.
As far as the the Oklahoma AG’s statement supporting the doctors, it’s timing is welcome as it arrived amongst a backdrop of horrendous polls for my old party the Democrats – Biden’s disapproval rating is approaching 60% — and a massive, growing, and effective Canadian protest against COVID mandates that is about to spill across the U.S. border (the U.S “People’s Convoy” will launch from Barstow, CA on February 23rd). Yeah baby.
This is the perfect time for President Biden to finally acknowledge that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to medicine, to lift mandates and let doctors be doctors. Do you think he’ll listen? Or only when the convoy stretches a hundred miles and hundreds of thousands of Americans come out into the streets to cheer them on?
Some harsh critics of the president are hopeful he will do something in this vein. In an Op-Ed in the Washington Times, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) noted the potential possibility that the president could seize the moment and finally unite the country – but not before giving Biden his lumps.
“During his pursuit of the presidency, President Biden sold himself as a uniter, an ally of the light, who would use science to “shut down” the pandemic. Those of us who served with him in Congress knew better. He spent over three decades in the Senate bullying opponents and demagoguing those who disagreed with him. He was focused on accruing power, not bridging differences or taking courageous stands.