Report by Paula Antolini, March 25, 2020, 2L:46PM EDT
NATIONAL NEWS / COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS
On March 24, 2020, Gov. Steve Sisolak (D-Nev.) signed an emergency regulation limiting use of a drug that could help novel COVID-19 coronavirus patients, calling the drugs “unproven” and claiming, “There is no consensus among COVID-19 experts or Nevada’s own medical health advisory team that the two drugs provide treatment for COVID-19. At this point in time there is no known cure for COVID-19. The emergency regulation is aimed at preventing hoarding of the drugs.”
Sisolak tweeted: “Today, I signed an emergency regulation limiting the prescription & issuance of two drugs that have unproven results with treating COVID-19. While these drugs serve necessary medical purposes, this regulation protects the Nevadans who need them and prevents unnecessary hoarding.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) criticized Gov. Steve Sisolak (D-Nev.) on this emergency drug regulation, aimed at Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine, drugs that are also anti-malaria medications and used for other ailments too.
Cruz tweeted, “During this crisis, we should listen to the science & the medical professionals. The opposite approach: the Governor of Nevada, practicing medicine w/o a license—trying to score political points against Trump—& prohibiting NV doctors from prescribing medicines to treat COVID19.”
“Sisolak shot back that Cruz apparently didn’t notice that Texas did something similar,” reports Law & Crime, “It started when Sisolak signed an emergency regulation adopted by his state’s Board of Pharmacy which limits, but does not totally ban, the “prescription and issuance” of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the two drugs at issue. The purpose of the emergency regulation was to prevent hoarding and to ensure the medications remain available for “necessary medical purposes,” the governor said.”
Gov. Sisolak tweeted, “These regs were developed by the Nevada Board of Pharmacy in coordination with NV’s Chief Medical Officer and our COVID-19 Medical Advisory Team. They’re medical professionals. Really smart folks. I trust them.”
Trump previously said, about the drug, “It’s shown very encouraging — very, very encouraging early results. And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — they’ve gone through the approval process; it’s been approved. And they did it, they took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states.“
Which way will Connecticut go?
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