Tue Oct 19, 2021 – 1:20 pm EDT
LINCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — Nebraska’s attorney general confirmed in a legal opinion that medical professionals should not be punished for how they choose to treat COVID.
“[W]e find that the available data does not justify filing disciplinary actions against physicians simply because they prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to prevent or treat COVID-19,” three top attorneys for the state wrote on October 15. Attorney General Douglas Peterson, Assistant Attorney General Mindy Lester and Solicitor General James Campbell authored the opinion upon request by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
Medical professionals have been criticized for pursuing experimental COVID treatments such as HCQ and ivermectin.
But in Nebraska, doctors should not fear a loss of license or other sanctions for prescribing such treatments, according to the legal opinion. It said there is a history of allowing drugs to be used “off-label” by medical professionals.
“Based on these principles, we conclude that governing law allows physicians to use FDA-approved medicines that are unproven for a particular off-label use so long as (1) reasonable medical evidence supports that use and (2) a patient’s written informed consent is obtained,” the legal
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