FDA Trying to Rewrite COVID History on Prohibiting Ivermectin, Dr. Atlas Says

A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at headquarters in White Oak, Md., on July 20, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Boyden Gray & Associates filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of three doctors who allege that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) illegally interfered with their doctor–patient relationships, resulting in harm. They also claim that the FDA broke the law when the agency issued statements prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

In response to the lawsuit, lawyers for the FDA claimed that its guidance for people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a recommendation; as such, they weren’t mandating against it.