FDA can only regulate the labeled indications, but cannot regulate doctors and/or pharmacists medical decisions (hence “off-label” uses); OTOH insurers are usually reluctant to cover off-label uses
Bad-faith moves from FDA like this set up a collision between the law & sound medical judgment
Bad-faith moves from FDA like this set up a collision between the law & sound medical judgment
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Brandon Friedman
No one under 65 gets a covid vaccine anymore
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And since Dobbs, big chain pharmacies in red states have been assholes about off-label mifepristone and methotrexate
My wife & I found a pediatrician for our girls who will not take antivax patients, so all the families at our practice get regular vax schedule. Maybe there’s a pecuniary angle to their policy but we’re glad not to worry so much that ppl in the building might have varicella
But. There it is.
FDA can’t regulate off-label uses, but state medical & pharmacist licensing boards can open investigations and threaten licenses
Generally, federal courts have said privately discussing and/or suggesting off-label uses is 1st-amendment protected
And pharmacists aren’t privately discussing or suggesting vaccines. They’re prescribing and administering them. My last C19 booster was “prescribed” by the pharmacist at CVS.
But any way you slice it: this is bad for patients, bad for reliability of a system built on good-faith data analysis, and will cause harm & chaos