Federal Court Rules Against FDA Over Anti-Ivermectin Posts During COVID

A federal court ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) overstepped its authority when telling Americans not to use ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

“FDA can inform, but it has identified no authority allowing it to recommend consumers ‘stop’ taking medicine,” U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett wrote in the ruling on Sept. 1 in a lawsuit brought forward by three dcotors.

The FDA during the COVID plandemic issued multiple statements discouraging the use of ivermectin, a cheap and extensively researched anti-parasitic drug, to treat COVID-19.

In one smug post that excited FDA officials, the agency wrote, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

The post linked to a page titled, “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.”

The regulatory agency has instead been keen on recommending Americans receive the experimental and ineffective COVID mRNA vaccine.

The FDA has the authority under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to convey information and data but not to give medical recommendations.

During oral arguments in the case, the FDA also admitted that doctors have the right to prescribe ivermectin to patients.

“FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA said.

The FDA also claimed it did not give advice but merely provided “informational statements” — but then admitted it “provided recommendations” and “advise[d] consumers.”

“Despite these concessions, FDA never points to any authority that allows it to issue recommendations or give medical advice,” Judge Willett wrote.

“Rather, FDA argues that some posts included a hyperlink that leads to the update. The update, in turn, directs consumers to ‘[t]alk to your health care provider.’ But not all of the social-media posts included such a link. And even for those posts that did include a link, the posts themselves offer advice, not mere information.”

Dr. Robert Apter, one of the plaintiffs, called the ruling “a big win for doctors and for patients!”

One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Texas physician Dr. Mary Bowden, had also sued Houston Methodist Hospital for $25 million in 2022 after they fired her for praising ivermectin on social media as an effective treatment against COVID-19.

“I am being punished for speaking about what I am seeing firsthand,” she said during a presser in July 2022. “…I have now treated over 4,000 COVID-19 patients, and every single one of them who has received early treatment has stayed out of the hospital and survived, and no one has had any adverse repercussions from my treatment. But Methodist has made it appear that I am potentially dangerous and need to be silenced. And that is wrong.”  

That lawsuit was dismissed in early 2023.

Subsequent studies have indeed shown ivermectin to be an effective treatment against COVID-19.

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