Do Covid Patients Have the Right to Take Non Standard of Care Treatments Like Ivermectin and HCQ?
A seemingly simple question is actually pretty complicated. Let me start with a few basic general principles of FDA drug and state law. First, after a drug is approved for marketing under an NDA (New Drug Application), the drug manufacturer can only advertise its FDA-approved labeled indication. However, as far as federal law goes, physicians can prescribe almost any drug for any purpose, (subject to state law standard of care issues which I will talk about in a bit). This…