Nevada Bans Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 as Feds Confirm Off-Label Use Allowed Nationwide

Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for the CCP virus in tents set up to triage possible patients outside before they enter the main emergency department area at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 24, 2020. Misha Friedman/Getty Images

Nevada banned hydroxychloroquine from being prescribed as a treatment for COVID-19 as Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that doctors can prescribe the drug, which is approved to treat malaria, for patients who have the new illness.

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak said that no consensus exists among Nevada’s own medial experts that hydroxychloroquine or the closely related chloroquine can provide treatment for the new disease.