by Emily Miller
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) settled the lawsuit brought by three doctors who use ivermectin off-label to treat COVID-19. The FDA agreed to delete social media posts opposing the medication by saying it is for horses.
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden of Day 8, the plaintiff in the case, told me: “The damage the FDA inflicted will linger, but future patients are now protected from one meaningful government intrusion into their medical care.”
The FDA agreed to delete the Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook posts from August 21, 2021 that read, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” (A screencap of the X/twitter one is above and still online here.)
It will also remove the Twitter post (below) from April 26, 2022 that reads, “Hold your horses, y’all. Ivermectin may be trending, but it still isn’t authorized or approved to treat COVID-19.
Further, the FDA will delete all other social media posts on FDA accounts that link to its website (below) called “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.”
It will “retire” this website (called a consumer update) originally posted on March 5, 2021 and revised on September 7, 2021. The FDA retains the right to post a revised update.
Bowden said she and her co-plaintiffs Dr. Paul E. Marik and Dr. Robert L. Apter decided to drop the lawsuit they got what they wanted.
“After nearly two years and a resounding rebuke by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the FDA has agreed to remove its misleading social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and Covid-19,” said Bowden.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to district court and wrote in the decision:
FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise. The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to
This is the seventh part of my series about the doctors’ ivermectin lawsuit against the FDA. Catch up and get the original sources here:
Greg – 08/21/21
He needs to educate himself the benefits for humans.
Approved for human use in 1987, it is used to treat infestations including head lice, scabies, river blindness, strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis, elephantiasis isnt just Gregs mamas name.
Pharma hates this drug because it has cancer treatment potential
Now, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found that an anti-parasitic drug prevents pancreatic cancer’s initiation, progression and metastasis in genetically engineered mice.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
Why does anyone pay attention to any of Greg’s posts? He should be just ignored.
I find it humorous to post reminders how wrong the man can be pretty much 100% of the time.
Why don’t you post a past comment where he was right?
If you can recall one I would…when has he ever been right?
As with all agencies, Democrats have made politics more important than health within the FDA.
The FDA is less like help agency and more like just another bunch of buricrats