Yesterday, that information was confirmed by a member of that hospital's staff.
I found the cognitive dissonance of this to be astonishing.
Remember--EVERYONE in the mainstream wants you to believe Ivermectin is an unsafe "Horse De-Wormer" as they simultaneously warn you with a serious looking face about all the reports to poison control hotlines about people overdosing on horse dewormer! --But they neglect to mention that the pill form of Ivermectin for humans is among the safest, most widely prescribed medication in the world--and that the lion's share of the overdosing is due to folks inappropriately measuring the animal paste Ivermectin and taking this veterinary formulation of this product. (Some doctors are actually being investigated in some parts of the country for dispensing Ivermectin for thousands of COVID-19 patients--even when such patients improve and none die!)
I've also heard anecdotally that another member of the same local hospital's staff has quietly prescribed Ivermectin for COVID-19 patients' use on an outpatient basis, with such prescriptions subsequently filled at local pharmacies.
And lots of other local doctors are apparently prescribing Ivermectin for Covid-19 patients, too. Really smart, intelligent, rational medical doctors.
So if doctors want to prescribe Ivermectin for COVID-19 patients "off-label" ----- why are they being stigmatized and silenced/cancelled/precluded from doing so?
I'm told by some really, really smart doctors that LOTS of drugs approved by the FDA for some conditions are actually used and prescribed frequently for other, differing conditions. This common practice is called "off-label" use. And, I'm of the understanding that once a drug is approved by the FDA for a specific condition/disease---this in and of itself DOES NOT preclude doctors from prescribing it for OTHER conditions/diseases---It only precludes the manufacturers of such medications from advertising/marketing these medications for conditions other than the original maladies for which the medications initially received FDA authorization. Sounds complex, but it is not. As an example--one pediatrician with whom I spoke prescribes some blood pressure medications to her patients for conditions not associated with blood pressure regulation. Another doctor described prescribing an anti-seizure medication for purposes other than preventing seizures. I'm of the understanding this is common practice.
But now, I'm told, this one particular hospital is no longer using Ivermectin "off -label" for COVID-19 patients. I wonder--are they precluding all their physicians from any "off-label" prescribing for any other conditions for patients----------or does this only apply to Ivermectin and COVID-19? Shouldn't doctors be able to individually make this call for their patients? Maybe that will be my next question to him next time I see him or speak with him. Meanwhile, this is the official position, at least for now, on Ivermectin for COVID at this one particular, large local hospital:
"we had one physician prescribing ivermectin back in the [May 2021] timeframe..his physician extender also did so. Since then that has ceased from happening in accordance to our formulary as adopted by our medical staff.....during the late summer/fall wave, the recommendations from medical societies came out against its use unless part of a clinical trial, which we did not do..."
Case closed.
