Not only that, didn't doctors LOSE their licenses for making the prescriptions?

Goddamn motherfucking lying shitbag asshole cocksuckers.

"Never in writing, always in cash"

So long as there wasn't anything going through the courts or legislator, they had deniability when the deaths rose because of their actions.

As soon as a statement is required in court and taken by a court recorder, they immediately deny anything that results in them taking responsibility.

“FDA made these statements in response to multiple reports of consumers being hospitalized, after self medicating with ivermectin intended for horses, which is available for purchase over the counter without the need for prescription,” Ms. Honold said.

A version of the drug for animals is available, but ivermectin is approved by the FDA for human use against diseases caused by parasites.

Ms. Honold said that the FDA didn’t purport to require anyone to do anything or to prohibit anyone from doing anything.

“What about when it said, ‘No, stop it’?” Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod, on the panel that is hearing the appeal, asked.

“Why isn’t that a command? If you were in English class, they would say that was a command.”

Ms. Honold described the statements as “merely quips.”

“Can you answer the question, please? Is that a command, ‘Stop it’?” Judge Elrod asked.

“In some contexts, those words could be construed as a command,” Ms. Honold said.

“But in this context, where FDA was simply using these words in the context of a quippy tweet meant to share its informational article, those statements do not rise to the level of a command.”

The statements “don’t prohibit doctors from prescribing ivermectin to treat COVID or for any other purpose” Ms. Honold said. She noted that the FDA, along with the statements, said that people should consult their health care providers about COVID-19 treatments and that they could take medicine if it was prescribed by the provider.

“FDA is clearly acknowledging that doctors have the authority to prescribe human ivermectin to treat COVID. So they are not interfering with the authority of doctors to prescribe drugs or to practice medicine,” she said.

Amazing. The FDA was apparently making quips regarding your medical health that you should not have taken seriously.

EDIT: I left out the best part.

Ms. Honold also said that the courts can’t hold agencies accountable when they provide false or misleading information: “The FDA is politically accountable, just like all other executive agencies.”

All stories like this tell me is they're going to get away with it, again, because no ones going to hold them accountable.

FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID

I remember reading a story about Texas was still going after a doctor for prescribing it as late as last week.

FDA should be immediately defunded and consumers given the right to buy any medicine over the counter- just like in mexico.

FDA has taken too many pharma bribes to have any legutumacy remaining.

why were they so against people taking anti-parasitics...?

The yard needs pinata

Lots of lifetime jail sentences are the only way to ever fix this.

People who had existing prescriptions for chronic illnesses couldn't get them filled because pharmacists refused. Governors banned HCQ and IVM in their state.

People should sue for having their medical treatment interfered with, at the least.