From the Oregon gov covid blog:
The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have all received an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA. EUAs may be granted only during a public health emergency and when there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. That should answer your first question. No EUA if there is a treatment. So, no treatments exist. Funny the way that worked.
And, no treatment in the hospital either. I found that out while shivering for 23.5 hours in the emergency room with covid. I asked 3 or 4 times what the treatment protocol was and was met with silence. Here's why, the hospital is indemnified as long as they use only the approved treatments (remdesivir, O2 and ventilators). The administration of the hospital doesn't want the liability so restricts treatments. Thank God I didn't get the remdesivir.
To encourage the expeditious development and deployment of medical countermeasures during a public health emergency, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to limit legal liability for losses relating to the administration of medical countermeasures such as diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines. In a declaration effective February 4, 2020 (the HHS Declaration), the Secretary of HHS (the Secretary) invoked the PREP Act and declared Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) to be a public health emergency warranting liability protections for covered countermeasures. Under the HHS Declaration and its amendments, covered persons are generally immune from legal liability (i.e., they cannot be sued for money damages in court) for losses relating to the administration or use of covered countermeasures against COVID-19 On a related subject when Rand Paul was grilling Fauci, Fauci wound up mispronouncing the drug, from Japan, that has rescued Japan*. Ivermectim not Ivermectin. I thought the mispronunciation was interesting.
*Please see Worldometer for Japan. Stunning success, no news reported here. |
