Republicans said it wouldn’t protect a Pennsylvania doctor fired last week over off-label prescriptions.
Republican state Rep. Dawn Keefer discusses her bill before a House committee on Feb. 7, 2022.A state House committee on Monday approved a bill that would free doctors to prescribe off-label drugs to treat COVID-19 and allow pharmacists to fill the prescriptions, also without penalty.It was approved by the health committee by a 15-10 vote, with Democrats opposing. It still needs approval from the full House and Senate and would have to be signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
Keefer said she wants to help “patients who are told in the hospital there’s nothing else we can do for them. Why not a hail Mary? “Doctors should not direct patients away from proven care towards unproven remedies,” Democratic said Rep. Bridget Kosierowski of Lackawanna County. “I don’t know why we would set the bar so high … I think simple negligence would be an acceptable standard,” said Rep. Benjamin Sanchez of Montgomery County.
Doctors at Duke University are leading a study to determine if ivermectin and three other repurposed drugs work against COVID-19.“There were some early studies that showed it could potentially be helpful with COVID-19, but they were not large enough to be definitive … So we want to know either way, is it potentially beneficial or not.”
“There remain no approved outpatient treatment strategies and no competent inpatient treatment strategies,” Keefer said. “And despite knowing the fatal risk of going on a ventilator, there’s no formidable treatment strategy that exhausts all possible options before intubating patients.”
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