FOX 31 Article: Lupus Patients Nervous Over Run on Trump-dubbed ‘Game-Changer’ COVID-19 DrugsPosted: March 27, 2020 Check out the article below, featuring CPS Executive Director, Emily Zadvorny, which covers the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine and prescribing in Colorado.
DENVER (KDVR) -- Patients who use the medication hydroxychloroquine to combat debilitating symptoms associated with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis say they’re worried about a potential shortage of the medication after President Donald Trump suggested it could be possibly a “game-changer” in the fight against COVID-19... On Thursday, the Colorado Pharmacists Society sent a letter to the governor, asking for limitations on how the prescriptions are dispensed. “A lot of states are doing this,” said Emily Zadvorny, the group’s executive director. “What we are asking for is that if there are prescriptions for these medications that they indicate on the prescription that they have a legitimate medical purpose and what that diagnosis is." “We’re also asking to not start new prescriptions for those medications, but if they are being continued before March 8, 2020, then they can continue those," she added. Zadvorny said any prescriptions written for COVID-19 patients should only be dispensed to patients who have recently been hospitalized. “There is a little bit of evidence, again, in the truly sick people, that his might be part of a treatment algorithm. So those are the things we’re asking for in our letter to the governor’s office,” she said.
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