Oklahoma stuck with over a million hydroxychloroquine doses

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Idiots who listen to the former guy are paying the price for their stupidity

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It’s been a long, strange trip for Oklahoma’s $2.6 million shipment of hydroxychloroquine, bought a year ago as a once-promising treatment for COVID-19.

The 1.2 million doses of the drug normally used to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and prevent malaria were shipped from a California distributor to a small pharmacy in Pryor, with the state paying for the hydroxychloroquine from money borrowed from fees generated by medical marijuana licenses.

The hydroxychloroquine now sits in a warehouse at an undisclosed location, with the Oklahoma State Department of Health reluctant to answer questions about what it will do with the drug or why it went to Pryor. Records obtained by Oklahoma Watch show the drug has an expiration date in December. Meanwhile, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients had to navigate a temporary shortage related to a spike in demand related to the drug’s supposed COVID-19 usage.

In the early weeks of the pandemic, former Secretary of Health Jerome Loughridge authorized the purchase of up to $3 million of hydroxychloroquine from California-based FFF Enterprises Inc., according to an April 3, 2020 memo.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. It's not even correct to call in "once promising."

From the very beginning it was clear that hydroxychloroquine was at best unproven, and possibly far worse than the virus, which turned out to be the case.

[nykym]

2. Give it to the people who

need it for free, two medications that have been used for many decades to treat malaria and autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

[jimfields33]

3. I agree. If it can help alleviate or heck get rid of the problem, give it

To anybody who asks. I think that is a brilliant conclusion.

[yellerpup]

4. This is what our Governor paid for Trump

to come to Tulsa and spread Covid-19 early.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Thanks Gov. Shitt...er..Stitt

Ass-kisser, first asshole to bring a super spreader event to a major city. He's a RW nightmare!

[Mickju]

6. Our taxpayer dollars wasted on this shit.

The most Republican state strikes again.