AMA - Hydroxychloroquine and Combination Therapies – Off-Label Use - res 509

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AMA - Hydroxychloroquine and Combination Therapies – Off-Label Use - resolution 509
So after being in part responsible for the completely unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, the AMA suddenly gets religion and gives their blessing for doctors to go ahead and prescribe HCQ?
Was their objective to remove Trump from office by killing hundreds of thousands of Americans?

https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-10/nov20-handbook-addendum.pdf
"AMA - Hydroxychloroquine and Combination Therapies – Off-Label Use"

"Whereas, Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine are FDA approved medications for over 50 years, and these medications are safely prescribed long-term for other indications"

with the admission:

"Whereas, The original studies published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine(NEJM) initially citing harm due to hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine use were retracted by said journals due to dubious research methodology and incorrect conclusions (7, 8, 9); and

Whereas, AMA policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” supports a physician’s autonomy to prescribe medications the physician believes to be in the patient’s best interest, where the benefits outweigh risk and the patient consents; and

Whereas, Physicians have used off label medications for years and this use is supported by existing policy; and

Whereas, Data regarding harm have been limited due to poorly designed studies or studies usually in Stage 2 or later, or stopped without harm but no effect in phase 2 and hypothesis (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12); and

Whereas, There are many studies that indicate that the use of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin is effective and front-line physicians are using the therapy where permissible (13, 14, 15)

Whereas, The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious medical issue, people are dying, and physicians must be able to perform as sagacious prescribers; therefore be it"

So if they knew back in early June that the Lancet study was a fraud why didn't the AMA immediately correct their error? Why wait until after the election in November for the admission, and effort at correction, after hundreds of thousands of Americans died completely unnecessary horrible deaths because they weren't given effective early outpatient treatment?

"RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association rescind its statement calling for physicians to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine until sufficient evidence becomes available to conclusively illustrate that the harm associated with use outweighs benefit early in the disease course. Implying that such treatment is inappropriate contradicts AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,”  that addresses off label prescriptions as appropriate in the judgement of the prescribing physician (Directive to Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA rescind its joint statement with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and update it with a joint statement notifying patients that further studies are ongoing to clarify any potential benefit of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of COVID-19 (Directive to Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA reassure the patients whose physicians are prescribing hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for their early-stage COVID-19 diagnosis by issuing an updated statement clarifying our support for a physician’s ability to prescribe an FDA-approved medication for off label use, if it is in her/his best clinical judgement, with specific reference to the use of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of the earliest stage of COVID-19 (Directive to Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA take the actions necessary to require local pharmacies to fill valid prescriptions that are issued by physicians and consistent with AMA principles articulated in AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” including working with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists. (Directive to Take Action)"

"Submitting a resolution & how policy is developed"
https://www.ama-assn.org/member-groups-sections/residents-fellows/submitting-resolution-how-policy-developed

As hundreds of thousands of people continue to die around the world. But blessedly at least not at the rate in other countries, that the AMA, FDA, NIH and CDC are responsible for Americans dying.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AMA+vote+on+resolution+509&t=h_&ia=web

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So will they rescind their statement calling for physicians to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine, or dig their hole even deeper?

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AMA disgraces themselves again:

"AMA survey shows over 96% of doctors fully vaccinated against COVID-19

From another forum: 

"The AMA only got 301 Doctors to participate in their little survey, that's about .03% of the doctor population.

That number says a lot more about the AMA than the actual results of the survey.

Makes one wonder why only about 15% of doctors are members of AMA. The $420 membership a little too expensive? Or the majority of Doctors know the organization is garbage?

Or maybe it's because of this:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Medical_Association
Eliminating competitors to drug based paradigm

""In his 1994 book, The Assault on Medical Freedom, author P. Joseph Lisa gained access to secret files in the AMA's Chicago Department of investigation under the guise of collecting information to expose "mental health quackery." In the process, he uncovered hundreds of AMA photocopies of memos, minutes and other documents. In a subsequent ten year investigation, he found little evidence of "quackery" and much evidence of an organized propaganda campaign to discredit alternative medicine and foreign drugs. The birth of the AMA in 1847 launched an organized push for a "totalitarian medical pharmaceutical police state". Funded by the drug industry, a single, medical monopoly was established using the insurance industry, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Internal Revenue Service (IRC), the U.S. Postal Service and other state and federal agencies. From the onset, the AMA is characterized as a greed motivated trade union, eliminating competitors to its own financial and political interests. Funded by the Carnegie Foundation, Abraham Flexner was ostensibly empowered to investigate the quality of medical education in all 161 medical schools that existed in 1910. In league with Rockefeller billions, Flexner helped destroy the credibility and funding sources for nearly all schools using non-drug based medicine. 161 medical schools dwindled down to 81 by 1919 and medical graduates declined from 5,747 to 2,658. "Overcrowding" of the profession became the public AMA theme for the "opportunities of those already in the profession to acquire a livelihood."[5]"