The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requested by Mayo Clinic for use of plasma from patients who recovered from COVID-19 to treat hospitalized patients. “The tipping point for the agency appeared to be that ‘optimal’ patients who were treated with ‘convalescent plasma at the highest [antibody] titers’ showed […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. The FDA denied August 10 the urgent request for emergency approval for COVID-19 outpatient preventive and early treatment use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) filed July 1 by Dr. John McKinnon’s team at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, supported by Dr. Peter McCullough’s cardiology team in Dallas. Approximately 48,000 more Americans have […]
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, write that “the FDA’s actions regarding [hydroxychloroquine] HCQ may be directly costing lives by limiting outpatient access to this […]
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5002 Offered August 18, 2020. Prefiled August 14, 2020 Encouraging that hydroxychloroquine should be made available for treating COVID-19. Patrons– LaRock, Cole, M.L. and Walker WHEREAS, Virginia is immersed in a public health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in significant loss of life; and WHEREAS, during the […]
On Monday the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on its lawsuit to end governmental interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The Respondents include the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human […]
I’m sure you are aware of the politics surrounding the “Trump drug,” as opinions about the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in COVID-19 seem to correlate with support or opposition to President Trump. But that’s not the main story, as Dr. Simone Gold pointed out in a Facebook-censored interview with Glenn Beck. President Trump mentioned HCQ […]
Never has politics been so deeply involved in decisions that should be between a physician and patient. It is normal for physicians to listen to patients and colleagues, read the literature, write a prescription for an FDA-approved drug, and expect the pharmacy to fill it. But hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) or Plaquenil™, is the unprecedented exception—if and […]
Volume 76, no. 8 August 2020 It is certain that the COVID-19 pandemic will end, just as all previous, mostly worse pandemics did (https://tinyurl.com/r4xhshy). A disease from which more than 99.5% recover cannot wipe out the human species. The SARS-CoV-2 virus may vanish, like SARS-CoV-1. Or there may be recurrent waves, as with the 1918 […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends, Earlier this week courageous physicians stood on the steps of the US Supreme Court to tell the world about the consequences of government bureaucrats blocking their ability to care for their patients during a pandemic. To say that what they had to say resonated with Americans would be a severe […]
I hope you have a doctor who knows you, cares about you, and will answer your questions. A doctor who is employed or has contracts with managed care is not really YOUR doctor, and constantly has to worry about what happened to Dr. Simone Gold, as reported by Tucker Carlson on July 30. After holding […]