CDC and FDA warned doctors AGAINST off-label use of corticosteroids to treat COVID-19, even though (or because?) those drugs really WORK, as we now know (for the moment)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Note, first, how "our free press" misrepresents dexamethasone as the first drug

"shown to improve COVID-19 survival," as if hydroxychloroquine, along with zinc,

has not been "shown" to do so, all over the US and the world.

And even though this news about corticosteroids is making headlines only now,

doctors testified as to their effectiveness in COVID-19 treatment some six weeks

ago—and, in so doing, complained that the CDC and FDA had warned doctors

against prescribing corticosteroids for off-label use. (Scroll down to read Paul

Lehto's commentary.)

MCM

Steroid drug hailed as 'breakthrough' for seriously ill COVID-19 patients

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-steroid-idUSKBN23N1VP

Cheap Drug Is First Shown to Improve COVID-19 Survival

                                                                                https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/16/health/ap-us-med-virus-outbreak-treatment.html

By The Associated Press

From Paul Lehto:

The effectiveness of corticosteroids against COVID-19 was noted back on May 7, when doctors in the FLCC

   (Front Line Covid Critical Care group) testified about it in the Senate. And those doctors did not just report 

   remarkable success in treating 98 out of 100 critically ill COVID patients with corticosteroids, but—even more

   important—they complained that the health agencies had warned against off-label use of corticosteroids, such 

   as prednisone, although doctors do that every day. They speculated that the regulatory agencies—i.e., Big Pharma

   —are more interested in therapies based on antiviral drugs and, of course, vaccines. 

   

 So now it has been proven that corticosteroids do save the lives of COVID-19 patients, while the FDA and CDC are

     helping to kill off such patients by telling doctors not to prescribe them. 

 

 (Now let's see if they attack dexamethasone!)  

 

Testimony to Senate about the above and saying that prednisone plus vitamin C and heparin saved 98 out of 100

    critically ill patients is here [as is much else worth reading—MCM]:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/testimony-kory-2020-05-06-revised