The answer to a question that has been puzzling me. Why doesn't anyone offer treatment? Regeneron, HCQ, or Ivermectin? The PREP act only shielded usage of approved treatments:
The amended Section VII adds that PREP Act liability protections also extend to Covered Persons for Recommended Activities that are related to any Covered Countermeasure that is:
a. licensed, approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (or that is permitted to be used under an Investigational New Drug Application or an Investigational Device Exemption) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act or Public Health Service (PHS) Act to treat, diagnose, cure, prevent, mitigate or limit the harm from COVID–19, or the transmission of SARS–CoV–2 or a virus mutating therefrom; or
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If the hospital or physician refuses to treat you with anything other than Remdesivir (which has an EUA still outstanding despite failing said trials), dexamethasone, oxygen and a ventilator (which, you remember, Trump bought tens of thousands of for this explicit purpose under the DPA) they are immune from all legal action you may take due to their negligence, even if they KNOW there are other treatment options that, on the science, work.
If they use those options they lose the PREP Act immunity.
That's right: The US Federal Government demanded that in exchange for legal protection in all respects with regard to Covid-19 treatment only what they approved for said use could be used. Anything else and poof -- the PREP Act liability shield is gone.
Translation from lawyerese, don't use any treatment that is not specifically approved or you will be on the hook from liability.
So the big medical groups read this and said "no treatment".
In contrast, DeSantis, in Florida, stood up 30 Regeneron treatment centers with a blanket prescription from his surgeon general and is keeping people from dying.
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