Madison Reporter

Former chief of critical care at UW Hospital Dr. Pierre Kory said the settlement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that requires them to remove all social media posts warning people against using ivermectin is a “huge win” for the practice of medicine.

“Huge win for doctors and patients today,” Kory said in a post on X. “Americans should rejoice that we got the (P)FDA to get out of the practice of medicine. They knew they did not have that authority but did it anyway. Now they have to take everything they did against ivermectin off the internet.”

The FDA agreed to a settlement on March 21 that requires them to remove all social media posts they made regarding ivermectin and its ability to treat Covid-19 symptoms. This includes their viral post on X which read “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

The agreement also involves doctors who made claims against the FDA to withdraw them, reported NTD News.

“The FDA interfered in the practice of medicine with their irresponsible language and posts about ivermectin,” Dr. Paul Marik, chief scientific officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance said. “We will never know how many lives were affected because patients were denied access to a lifesaving treatment because their doctor was ‘just following the FDA.’”

Dr. Pierre Kory is the former chief of critical care at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. Kory also previously served as head of the main medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) at the university’s hospital.

He currently is president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance, a 501(c)3 that recommends treating COVID-19 infection with alternative modalities, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.