Health Care Workers Cry Foul on FDA Claiming
It Didn’t Prohibit Ivermectin for COVID-19
Epoch Times,
by
Katie Spence
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/4/2023 12:14:05 PM
Dr. Yusuf Saleeby has practiced medicine for more than 30 years. He serves patients in South Carolina and until recently had never faced an investigation from his state medical board.
But after Saleeby started prescribing ivermectin to his patients, he was reported to the board, which opened an investigation, despite the state’s attorney general’s promise that his office wouldn’t prosecute doctors who prescribed off-label medications.
Jennifer Wright, a nurse practitioner and clinical director who practices in Florida, but can prescribe across state lines, told The Epoch Times she received a letter from the Office of the Attorney General of New York ordering her not to prescribe ivermectin.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 1/4/2023 12:20:43 PM (No. 1370685)
Who are you going to believe the Brandon FDA or your lying eyes and ears. How stupid do they think we are?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
farmwife 1/4/2023 12:24:43 PM (No. 1370688)
Banning this medication when they had nothing else to offer people who were getting sick was a crime. I don't know if you can get it yet. People died, heads should roll.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Encore 1/4/2023 12:55:33 PM (No. 1370705)
Helping to prosecute all responsible would be something I could definitely get behind financially. Their behavior can not be tolerated. So glad people are waking up and there are brave, driven individuals willing to take on this corrupt system.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/4/2023 1:12:32 PM (No. 1370720)
These restrictions on a caregiver's LICENSED RIGHT to prescribe medications off-label only succeeded because most regulators and doctors whored themselves to pharma. Had enough physicians stood their ground, none of the therapy limitations or mandates (mask/quarantine/school shutdowns) would have survived to destroy our economy and childhood education. As a physician, I am ashamed and appalled by what my colleagues did. But I am not surprised. The feds and woke complicit medical licensing boards made it (and continue to make it) damn near impossible to practice medicine as once was taught.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/4/2023 1:13:59 PM (No. 1370724)
‘Remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - July 16, 2021
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 1/4/2023 1:26:13 PM (No. 1370734)
I would have been able to get a script filled at a local compounding pharm..but since it was going to be difficult to get one.I just ordered my Ivermectin from a pharm in India..I also have Indian clients who travel back and forth and can supply me if needed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jasmine 1/4/2023 1:45:28 PM (No. 1370741)
While on the surface, the "Your Are Not A Horse" message was one of concern for the well being of COVID stricken Americans, the FDA went out of its way to ensure doctors would be "investigated" and properly intimidated for prescribing the human formulation of Ivermectin "off label." In desperation, some Americans bought and used the animal version ONLY because their government forbade doctors to prescribe it as a COVID treatment. The irony is that eventually vaccines, unlike Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, were given emergency use authorization without the usual, long term clinical trials. Politicians and bureaucrats helpfully insured companies making the vaccines couldn't be sued.
Ivermectin, the cheap drug used for decades to treat parasitic infections around the world with a few pills for a few days at home, was cast as so DANGEROUS, only government could be trusted to evaluate its effectiveness. People like my late brother delayed going to the hospital, knowing there was no "approved treatment" and no vaccine available. He lingered in a hospital bed in a hospital hallway for two days, waiting a room along with other dying patients. It was the room he would eventually die in. His wife stood behind a glass window, talking to him through the telephone propped up to his ear as he took his last breaths. Not because no treatment was available, but because government DENIED access to treatments with repurposed, cheap drugs with well studied safety profiles
No one should forget that when patients DID get treatment with Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine after their infections were raging, and then died, much was made of the "ineffectiveness" of the drugs, rather than the fact that they were most effective when taken EARLY in the infection.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 1/4/2023 2:13:30 PM (No. 1370762)
Government officials that ordered medical personnel to not give Covid 19 patients ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine as part of their treatment should be sentenced to death, just like they were doing to patients. Maybe leave them on death roll for the rest of their life, but let them enjoy the feeling of that sentence hanging over their heads.
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Between the FDA and the CDC and the medical license boards, all doctors were threatened not to write a script for ivermectin or HCQ, and they very well know it!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mushroom 1/4/2023 6:20:45 PM (No. 1370920)
I clearly remember my primary care dr telling me if he did write the script he had been threatened by the Health department. They would pull his license and DEA would pull his registration.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/5/2023 12:31:52 AM (No. 1371113)
They made it VERY difficult to get, and essentially threatened doctors who used it, to intimidate the rest.
All while Uttar Pradesh in India, a state with 220 million people, ended their pandemic in six weeks with ivermectin.
A third world state in India gave far better health care than the "top experts" in the USA would permit.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 1/5/2023 5:00:34 AM (No. 1371161)
Yeah, and the Dems never defunded the police or called voter ID racist.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 1/5/2023 6:17:06 AM (No. 1371178)
Our government wants us to die. The health care system in the U.S. is turning into Canada and the U.K. Not good.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/5/2023 6:40:42 AM (No. 1371185)
The law suits are just over the horizon. Watch, employers and this current administration will down with their unlawful mandates. I hope Fauci is sued into poverty and jailed for all he did throughout his career.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Freedom1 1/5/2023 8:00:14 AM (No. 1371228)
I brought an Ivermectin Rx to a CVS in Hendersonville, NC, and was asked what it was for. When I said covid prevention, they refused to fill it. I had a fight with the pharmacist right in the middle of the store - "my medication is not your business" and "I'm sure you fill much more dangerous prescriptions", were a couple of my arguments that were ignored. The fierceness of that pharmacist's reaction speaks to specific directives to not fill it. What a bunch of liars!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 1/5/2023 8:12:53 AM (No. 1371232)
"First do no harm" is being changed to "First make a buck"
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/5/2023 8:21:02 AM (No. 1371236)
The look on my MD's face when I mentioned the I word spoke volumes. I don't need any further lies from another three alphabet outfit.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
walcb 1/5/2023 9:06:48 AM (No. 1371266)
I have a GP appointment this morning and have printed this article out to present. Any suggestions?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
walcb 1/5/2023 9:12:09 AM (No. 1371271)
I'm thinking to just say my granddaughter has head lice and she napped in my bed yesterday.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/5/2023 9:14:38 AM (No. 1371277)
I can't believe they are still arguing about the fact that there were effective treatments for COVID long before the vaccine, including natural immunity, and they wanted it to be a closed scam that pulled in billions of dollars and killed people. A liberal 'friend' of mine, a mental health professional, quit speaking to me when she contracted Long COVID and has been suffering from it for two years after getting shot and boosted as soon as each new juice came out.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Stencil 1/5/2023 9:25:33 AM (No. 1371285)
As noted above, administration of Ivermectin at the early onset of symptoms of the virus showed efficacy against the disease in patients with many DNA profiles. With the viral population more advanced, efficacy of Ivermectin wained quickly. A regime of the monocular antibodies, however, were highly effective and research and production of this treatment should have been promoted. Speaking here of the early variants, Alpha through Delta. Succeeding variants brought much lower lethality, as is the case with most viral evolutions.
The first jab of the P/M vaccine does reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and death of those of advanced age or underlying comorbidities. The jury is out on the long-term health effects of the vaccine on patients, particularly the young. Efficacy of subsequent boosters seems dubious and likely harmful on all but the most susceptible.
What should not be forgotten is that the early use of intubation, with patients lying on their backs, provided no defense against the virus and led to advancement of pneumonias which killed so many. Simply turning patients on their sides and avoiding intubation saved many lives. This should not be forgotten. Recall the early cries for mass production and delivery of ventilator systems to hospitals which consumed much time and resources. The hospital ships and temporary hospitals constructed at great expense were to primarily provide intubation facilities. I do not contribute this to malice but more like decisions in the fog of war.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
smcchk 1/5/2023 9:47:51 AM (No. 1371302)
Then why did my physician husband get a letter (as did all the physicians in the state) from the state licensing board to not prescribe anything for COVID? Their licenses were threatened.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
marbles 1/5/2023 10:07:13 AM (No. 1371326)
A pandemic is not a " pandemic" if there is a cheap , reliable , effective treatment. There is no fear, no changing of how life is lived on planet earth. That's the ONLY reason ivermectin was vilified by the MSM and the govt. And of course there as no money in it for the drug companies and their friends.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Paintman 1/5/2023 10:17:09 AM (No. 1371342)
#19,
You can tell the pharmacist that your Ivermectin script is for arthritis.
( I have read that it is very effective for some people - just like arthritis medications are very effective on a hit and miss basis. Gonna try it myself. It's worth a shot.)
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"Jennifer Wright, a nurse practitioner and clinical director who practices in Florida, but can prescribe across state lines, told The Epoch Times she received a letter from the Office of the Attorney General of New York ordering her not to prescribe ivermectin.
“You know, basically threatened me. If I don’t stop prescribing, then they’re going to fine me,” Wright said about the letter, which threatened legal action with fines of up to $5,000 per violation."
So, "Tish," you are complicit in the murder or at the very leasr, the intentional homicide of thousands of poor New Yorkers who, as Prince Andrew so elequently put.. "Dey Died.."
Words fail me, and would get me banned.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 1/5/2023 10:31:10 AM (No. 1371356)
In Family practice for forty years in Virginia and WV, I prescribe hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. A few weeks ago I called, at a patient request, ivermectin to a CVS and was told “I won’t fill that damn stuff”. I use the indication “for inflammation” on the prescription. Fortunately, several other pharmacies are not so stupid. After many cases (diagnosis more by symptoms than “the test”, which is unreliable), but usually by both, we have not lost a single patient to Covid, Nor have I seen an adverse reaction to these drugs, which seem very effective if used early. Many of my patients are elderly, overweight, diabetic etc. I hope that, if sanity and reason return to the country and world, those responsible for this criminal injustice will get what they deserve. Also, I haven't been reprimanded by either state medical society.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
uforabin 1/5/2023 11:06:52 AM (No. 1371391)
Doctor Paul Alexander was quoted in an article in the American Thinker as saying that an HHS Department head told him, “Paul, my job every day is to coordinate with the other department heads to make sure Trump looks as bad as possible on the evening news.” He has also co-written a book, “Presidential Takedown: How Anthony Fauci, the CDC, NIH, and the WHO Conspired to Overthrow President Trump,”
But, we know that the conspiracy to get Trump goes even deeper than that. President Trump took ivermectin early on when he had Covid and was soundly ridiculed in the press for taking horse de-wormer, although the drug seemed to help. It seems like the press, HHS, FDA, and democrat Attorney Generals also got the message to “make Trump look bad.”
And, we continue to learn more every day about the efforts of the Justice Department, Treasury Department, National Archives, Social Media Platforms, influential members of his own party, and others, to destroy Trump and MAGA.
This is disturbing beyond words.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/5/2023 11:16:49 AM (No. 1371404)
Corrupt government made up of lying liberals in every branch.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/5/2023 11:19:31 AM (No. 1371407)
Hydroxychloroquine was another simple solution to the virus and the big Pharma dudes wanted no one to get that inexpensive and effective alternative...so the government put the screws to the doctors who saw good results...and shut them down...so folks...why?... was it all about money for the drug companies as payment for helping cause a coup against Americans by stopping President Trump from his second term which he earned and was cheated out of....
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/5/2023 12:13:51 PM (No. 1371457)
Deny, deny, deny.
Re-write history.
It's what totalitarians do.
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