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EXPERT CONFIRMS: FDA TRYING TO REWRITE COVID HISTORY ON PROHIBITING IVERMECTIN

By Katie Spence
Katie Spence

Katie covers energy and politics for The Epoch Times. Before starting her career
as a journalist, Katie proudly served in the Air Force as an Airborne Operations
Technician on JSTARS. She obtained her degree in Analytic Philosophy and a minor
in Cognitive Studies from the University of Colorado. Katie’s writing has
appeared on CNSNews.com, The Maverick Observer, The Motley Fool, First Quarter
Finance, The Cheat Sheet, and Investing.com. Email her at
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Boyden Gray & Associates filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of three doctors who
allege the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) illegally interfered with
their doctor-patient relationships, resulting in harm. They also claim the FDA
broke the law when it put out statements prohibiting using ivermectin to treat
COVID-19.

In response to the lawsuit, lawyers for the FDA claimed that the FDA’s guidance
for people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a
recommendation. As such, they weren’t mandating against it.

But in an interview that aired on NTD’s Newsmakers on Nov. 23, Dr. Scott Atlas,
a Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford
University, confirmed that the FDA did, indeed, take an “unprecedented” approach
against ivermectin and said that their defense is the FDA trying to rewrite
COVID-19 history.

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas speaks during a press conference
in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, on Sept. 18,
2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

“This is unprecedented, frankly, in my 30 years as a doctor, where the use of an
FDA-approved drug was somehow forbidden if you used it for off-label,” Atlas
stated. “In the United States, that’s Standard of Care.”

Standard of Care, Atlas explained, is once the FDA approves a drug, doctors are
allowed to use the drug to treat other conditions.

Atlas added that ivermectin was approved by the FDA and was found to be “so
safe” that “billions of doses have been given.” He said that ivermectin is
available over the counter in many countries without a doctor’s prescription.

“This was really a shocking interference of the ability of a doctor to do his
job,” Atlas declared.


REWRITING HISTORY

When asked why the FDA was attempting to rewrite history by stating its guidance
against ivermectin was a recommendation, Atlas said that the rewrite on
ivermectin is just the beginning.

“What we’re seeing is a complete Orwellian rewrite of all kinds of things during
this pandemic,” Atlas told NTD. “Many colleges of mine were always saying the
truth will prevail. And once the truth comes out, that some of these drugs were
either useful or safe …  there’s a lot of ‘cover your behind.”

Atlas then alleged that the FDA didn’t just forbid ivermectin. Instead, its
language was such that pharmacists and pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions
from doctors. Such a stance was “really unprecedented,” Atlas said.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony
Fauci (L), Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah
Birx (C), and CDC Director Robert R. Redfield (R) attend the daily briefing on
the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House
in Washington on April 8, 2020. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Further, Atlas said, there’s an overall “Orwellian rewrite of what the advice
was on a bigger picture.”

He pointed out that Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House COVID-19 response
coordinator, claims she opposed lockdowns. And Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, claims he opposed
school closings.

Circling back to ivermectin, Atlas said the FDA prohibiting its use off-label to
treat COVID-19 was “one of the bigger failures of the [National Institute of
Health].”

“The NIH could have done definitive clinical trials in the Spring of 2020.
Instead, they blocked those trials; they made people afraid of those drugs, so
that even when trials were attempted, patients were not willing to enter into
those trials.”

Atlas then stated unequivocally that the position taken by the NIH and the FDA
was an unethical abuse of public health.


DOCTORS FILE SUIT, THE FDA RESPONDS

Plaintiffs in the case against the FDA include Dr. Robert Apter, Dr. Mary Talley
Bowden, and Dr. Paul Marik. Lawyers for the plaintiffs allege that the FDA
violated the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and the Administrative
Procedure Act (APA).

Lawyers for the plaintiffs add that if the court doesn’t rule against the FDA
violating its statutory lane and unlawful actions, the FDA will continue to
interfere with the practice of medicine.

Atlas agreed, “Depending on the outcome of these, there will either be a real
chilling of what doctors can say and do for patients—complete interference, in a
doctor’s ability to help a patient! Or, if the lawsuits go the other way, we
will hopefully see a restoration of freedom of medical practice.”

White House Chief Medical Adviser on COVID-19 Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National
Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., on Feb. 11, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via
Getty Images)

Atlas said that doctors are afraid to be honest with their patients because of
what the NIH and FDA have done over the past few years.

Isaac Belfer, one of the lawyers for the FDA, said during a Nov. 1 hearing in
federal court in Texas, “The cited statements were not directives. They were not
mandatory. They were recommendations. They said what parties should do. They
said, for example, why you should not take ivermectin to treat COVID-19. They
did not say you may not do it, you must not do it. They did not say it’s
prohibited or it’s unlawful. They also did not say that doctors may not
prescribe ivermectin.”

As further evidence that the FDA didn’t “prohibit” ivermectin’s use, Belfer
added, “The plaintiffs, by their own admission, have continued to prescribe
ivermectin. So they always had the authority. It may be that patients were not
able to fill prescriptions, but the doctors themselves always had the
authority.”

Katie Spence

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Katie covers energy and politics for The Epoch Times. Before starting her career
as a journalist, Katie proudly served in the Air Force as an Airborne Operations
Technician on JSTARS. She obtained her degree in Analytic Philosophy and a minor
in Cognitive Studies from the University of Colorado. Katie’s writing has
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