BY October 19, 2021
Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued a legal opinion saying that his office won’t seek disciplinary action against doctors who prescribe hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as off-label medicines to treat or prevent COVID-19, as long as they are not engaging in any misconduct.
The opinion (pdf), issued on Oct. 14, was in response to a request from Dannette Smith, CEO of the state’s Department of Health, which licenses and disciplines doctors. Smith asked whether it would be “deemed unlawful or otherwise subject to discipline” for doctors to prescribe ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or other “off label use” medications to treat or prevent COVID-19.
The Republican attorney general said in the opinion that his office finds “the available data does not justify filing disciplinary actions against physicians simply because they prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to prevent or treat COVID-19.”
Health care providers in general may be subject to discipline if they “neglect to obtain informed consent, deceive their patients, prescribe excessively high doses, fail to check for contraindications, or engage in other misconduct,” wrote Peterson.
He said his office is not recommending any particular treatment options for COVID-19, but only the off-label early treatment options as raised by the health department “and conclude that the available evidence suggests that they might work for some people.”
The opinion continues, “Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained health care system.”
The legal opinion also noted that there may be other promising off-label medicines to tackle the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.
Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-inflammatory and anti-malarial medication, gained prominence and heavy scrutiny after former President Donald Trump said he was taking it as a prophylactic.
Last year, medical journal The Lancet initially published a paper condemning hydroxychloroquine before retracting it after more than 100 medical professionals raised major issues with the study.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in July 2020 removed videos of a group of doctors who advocated for its use as early treatment and prophylaxis amid the pandemic.
A study published in the American Journal of Medicine on Jan. 1 found that hydroxychloroquine helped lower mortality in the early treatment of COVID-19.
The World Health Organization in March advised against the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.
Ivermectin, a generic medicine widely used against some parasitic worms as well as to treat scabies, lice, and rosacea in humans, has been praised by some doctors as a life-saving early treatment for COVID-19.
Two groups, the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance and the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group, have urged for the off-label use of ivermectin for COVID-19. There are at least 63 studies, of which 45 are peer-reviewed, on the treatment of COVID-19 with ivermectin.
The American Medical Association, the American Pharmacists Association, and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, said in a joint statement in September they were against its use outside of a clinical trial as a COVID-19 drug.
In Australia, the therapeutics regulator has restricted the prescription of ivermectin for COVID-19 and other off-label use only for certain specialists, including infectious disease physicians, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, and hepatologists.
Mimi Nguyen Ly is a reporter based in Australia. She covers world news with a focus on U.S. news. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in optometry and vision science from the University of New South Wales. Contact her at mimi.nl@epochtimes.com.<
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NIH website lists IVM in its table of “Characteristics of Antiviral Agents That Are Approved or Under Evaluation for the Treatment of COVID-19” complete with dosing parameters…dated since July 8, 2021.
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/tables/table-2e/
A very interesting read on ZeroHedge regarding the reporting and the FDA’s attempts to undermine any claims made against them:
The FDA’s War Against The Truth On Ivermectin
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fdas-war-against-truth-ivermectin
It also includes an interesting description on how the FDA usually approves drugs.
From Dr. Kory twitter
An announcement like this from a credible source will spread like wild fire across the nation,across the world.
The positive results gained by use of these drugs,as was
found in India,will blow up the whole global conspiracy &
the psychopaths behind it
This was a enormous victory for the proper use of treatments for Covid. This legal opinion, which is just under 50 pages long, is very thorough and discusses and considers the history including many of the fraudulent steps taken while attempting to undermine the credible use of HCQ and IVM. While the opinion doesn’t protect those outside of Nebraska, the complete nature of this opinion by the Nebraska AG can serve to aid others in other jurisdictions facing legal or ethical charges regarding the valid use of these and other medications to serve in treatment of the Covid. This legal opinion should be forwarded to every legislator in the world. Furthermore, any patient whose doctor refuses to treat their condition should be given a printed copy of this document. It should also be handed to any pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription while noting that their non-compliance to fill a legal prescription is an unlawful act of practicing medicine without a license[more news on this later].
This legal opinion by the Nebraska AG is not propaganda. Nor is it offering medical instructions to use these medications, as the AG has no intention of co-opting the doctor-patient relationship which stood as the hallmark of proper medical treatment in the Pre-Covid age. Indeed, contrary to the dictates and coercive measures adopted by the CDC and others following their model of mandated medical protocols, the Nebraska AG simply notes that
Rather, it notes “that the available evidence suggests that they might work for some people” and this means it can save lives, which is the very purpose of medicine. We are in the middle of a pandemic of gross negligence based on blatant fraud and gross incompetence. Once the world begins to pursue the Indian model of medical prophylaxis, many lives that would otherwise be lost will survive this plague of neglect while much suffering will be avoided. In the age of vaccine worship, these simple objectives which were the hallmark of medical care seems to have been replaced with false gods and poor authorities. This legal opinion is a step back towards the Pre-Covid era in which a doctor held both the responsibility and authority to assess his patient’s condition and utilizing his clinical judgement and knowledge of medical protocols, without threat of repercussion, assess the best treatment available to treat each patient to achieve the greatest level of medical care.
God save us from the Fauci-Gates-MSM alliance.