“At least 20 states have enacted HCQ restrictions, even up to forbidding prescriptions to patients who haven't tested positive for COVID-19. An Ohio pharmacist told us that she's been instructed to report doctors who write such prescriptions to the district attorney's office...
“This restriction ignores the Food and Drug Administration's emergency use authorization for HCQ, which is based on data showing therapeutic and prophylactic benefits. It also ignores the reality that test results for COVID-19 take several days to come back..
“Doctors should be allowed to prescribe medications if their patients show symptoms, even if they are still awaiting diagnostic confirmation. To force physicians to wait for test results before treating the disease may cost lives.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/stop-using-hydroxychloroquine-to-politicize-physicians
I think when it comes to pharmaceuticals especially vaccines and antibiotics and even pain medication that should be between the doctor and the patient. Side effects can be discussed and I think it’s a good idea for the patient to do their own research.
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