Officials, doctors, and Texas residents testified before the Health & Human Services Committee about the government’s pandemic response.
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy restricted the use of hydroxychloroquine early in the pandemic, claiming it was to ensure enough was available to those who needed it.
More doctors are speaking up about early treatment for COVID-19 using hydroxychloroquine. The State Board of Pharmacy let the restrictions it had placed on the drug expire last week.
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy issued a new rule that no prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine could be dispensed without a diagnosis, then changed their tune.
