The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to remove social media posts and webpages that urged people to stop taking ivermectin to treat COVID-19, according to a settlement dated March 21.
The FDA has already removed a page that said: “Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? No.”
Within 21 days, the FDA will remove another page titled, “why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19,” according to the settlement announcement, which was filed with federal court in southern Texas.
“The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals,” the page currently states. It also says that data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19, despite how some studies it cites show ivermectin is effective against the illness.
The FDA in the settlement is also agreeing to delete multiple social media posts that came out strongly against ivermectin, including one that stated: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
In exchange, doctors who sued the agency are dismissing their claims, the filing states.
“FDA loses its war on ivermectin and agrees to remove all social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and COVID, including its most popular tweet in FDA history,” Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, one of the doctors, said in a statement.
“This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the doctor-patient relationship,” she added.
The FDA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ivermectin was approved by the FDA in 1996 to treat several conditions, including onchocerciasis, a tropical disease caused by a parasitic worm.
In the United States, it’s common for doctors to prescribe medicine off-label, or for a different purpose than the one for which the medicine is approved.
After some doctors began prescribing ivermectin for COVID-19, the FDA ramped up its campaign, including the Aug. 21, 2021, post on Twitter, now known as X.
Dr. Bowden and two other doctors sued the FDA, arguing the agency’s actions went beyond its authority, as conferred on it by Congress.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown dismissed the case in 2022, ruling that the FDA did not act outside the authority. But an appeals court in 2023 ruled in favor of the doctors, finding that the agency “has identified no authority allowing it to recommend consumers ‘stop’ taking medicine.”
Between the time of the ruling and the settlement, the FDA refused to change any of its statements on ivermectin, and asked for a fresh dismissal of the suit.
The Case
Drs. Robert Apter, Bowden, and Paul Marik brought the case in 2022. They said they suffered repercussions after prescribing ivermectin to patients with COVID-19, and that the FDA was to blame.
Dr. Apter, for instance, said that pharmacists refused to fill the prescriptions, citing the FDA.
“This refusal delays his patients in obtaining their prescribed treatment—when early intervention is paramount—while they look for a pharmacy to fill their prescription, if they can find one at all,” the suit states.
He also said that insurance companies were refusing to pay for ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
The suit said the FDA illegally interfered with the relationships between the doctors and patients. The doctors said with regard to ivermectin, the FDA overstepped the authority conferred on it in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Government lawyers argued that the FDA was acting within the confines of the law, and succeeded in getting the dismissal.
Judge Brown, appointed under President Donald Trump, said the FDA’s powers were only limited with regard to medical devices.
“As there is no statute limiting the FDA’s actions here, it cannot have acted outside of any statutory limitations,” he wrote in his ruling. “Further, it cannot be said that the FDA had no colorable basis of authority. The FDA is charged by Congress with protecting public health and ensuring that regulated medical products are safe and effective, among other things.”
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit disagreed, finding that the law did not authorize the FDA to give medical advice.
“FDA can inform, but it has identified no authority allowing it to recommend consumers ‘stop’ taking medicine,” U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett, appointed under President Trump, wrote for the court. The appeals court remanded the case back to the district court.
Big Government is NOT a good thing. Government is political. Do you trust ANY professional politician??
Ask yourself; how do professional politicians become millionaires and Billionaires?? When their congressional salaries are less than $200 thousand a year.
I also find that very strange and stranger then that msm or no group ever looks into it. Seems like it would be a great rag to riches story for so many politicians. IMO
Hence why to me, just telling the FDA “Remove these posts AFTER THE FACT”, is not even a slap on the wrist..
Again, the Democrat party-controlled feds act too little too late, to close the door after the cow has left the barn, or in this case the Biden Bats from their bat guano government caves of countrywide Chinese COVID infestations that turned healthy American people into the soulless socialist creatures that like Vampires, painfully evaporate when exposed to the light of truth. Makes no difference in the race of the people infected, but like COVID, the Democrat Cereal killer Count Chocula’s whose incompetency killed off more of their own cycle cell anemia kind in COVID obedient incompetence, than the white skinned Transylvanian transgenders of the Democrat party of foolish failings, deceptions and medical smoke and mirrors used, that they knew would never reveal the true images of their evil intentions, just like most mirrors fail to reflect true bloodsucking Democrat vampire, “feed off THE PEOPLE”, politicians, who denied America the ivermectin that would protect them. You know damn well how many democrat politicians used it to protect themselves, but denied it’s use to THE PEOPLE, in attempts to restrict it’s almost unavailable use so they could establish and lock in their own medical safety, while the frightened people went blind to the truth left only to seek comfort and safety in mandated masks, made by companies Pelosi had preplanned objectives to buy stock in and get rich, that only served to mask THE TRUTH. where American “Think and get rich” morphs into Democrat party “Stink and get Rich”
Exactly. THE DAMAGE IS ALREADY done.
Don’t let offenders throw their offenses down the Memory Hole, as though they never happened! Make them own them, to document and shame their dishonesty.
The correct demand was not that they remove their social media posts, but that they leave them up in perpetuity, with an explanation as to why they were & are wrong and possibly illegal, with a link to the court record.
AND ALL those involved, PAY Restitution, out of their OWN POCKETS< to the company.
According to RFK, Jr., Fauci was behind the FDA action in an attempt to perpetuate use of the vaccine, which was approved only on an emergency basis. Approval on an emergency basis is allowed only if there are no effective treatments available. If ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine were acknowledged as effective, the vaccine couldn’t be used any more.
The doctors should continue their law suits. Some of them lost their licenses, and patients left their practices due to the FDA. Reputations were tainted, money was lost, and it was all due to the WHO, CDC, and FDA and the Dr. Fauciests in power.
Above are some very astute, well-informed, and patriotic comments. Well done! While I can’t agree with most of RFK, Jr.’s political stance, he did a marvelous job and public serve in his work about COVID, seen in Dr. Mercola’s book where he wrote the Forward, and in his own book, The Real Antony Fauci. Both worth reading. Thank you everyone for your learning and commenting. Y’all do good!!
It has become standard procedure for government and Democrats to abuse their power, lie to the American people, and push blatantly false propaganda knowing it will take years to uncover. Through cover ups, withholding information, and a media eager to help they’re able to perpetrate a scam long enough so it has more power and believability than the truth. Only those of us who pay attention will ever know how corrupt these people have become. Most will only remember the lie.
AND all too often, EVEN IF THEY DO GET caught out, lying to congress and we the poeple, LITTLE IF ANYTHING is ever done to them.
No JAIL TIME
No fines
No being fired…
NOTHING…
SO THESE Sychophantic traitors, see NO REASON TO NOT STILL LIE, abuse their power etc.. There’s NO DOWN SIDE TO doing so.