FDA Settles Ivermectin Case, Agrees to Remove Controversial ‘Stop It’ Post
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This one's twisty, here is a summary.
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USA FDA, Food & Drug Administration, is supposed to test claims of safety & effectiveness, but NOT give medical orders
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2021 FDA's famous "Stop It" propaganda tweet against ivermectin, could be reasonably taken as medical order
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FDA was brought to court about it....and, so to speak, agreed to Stop It
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24495557-fda-stipulation-of-dismissal
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to remove social media posts and webpages that urged people to stop taking ivermectin to treat COVID-19, according to a settlement dated March 21.
The FDA has already removed a page that said: “Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? No.”
Within 21 days, the FDA will remove another page...
FDA can continue to say:
“The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals,”
...because of course they haven't. Not FDA job. Never was.
It's up to prescribing doctors. Anyone with a serious medical condition knows, good doctors prescribe "off-label" medications ie. medications with a different or unintended use, for a specific patient - and it's nobody's business. Surely not FDA business.
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The strange thing is that California's newish law imprisons and financially destroys doctors for things like this, based on the bad faith actions of government bodies.
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@raphjd Looking for update on CA law - it may have been partly reversed.
I do recall, Newsom signed it with the usual empty hand-wringing, where he says "this could affect Free Speech & Medical Privacy" then goes ahead.
Under that CA law, a doctor could have his license stripped for saying things that CDC later endorses. Yup.
Example - if a doctor said "covid is just another respiratory virus, no big deal" - he would have been pilloried for "misinformation" in the four calendar years 2020-23, only to see CDC reverse & admit same in fifth year, 2024. (https://community.gaytor.rent/topic/64479/cdc-admits-covid-is-just-another-respiratory-virus)
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OK - CA & Newsom repealed AB 2098 in Oct 2023, after legal challenges threatened to overturn it.
Back to FDA topic - well - you can't fault Dr. Pierre Kory who takes victory lap
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