Citing Texas City, senators call investigation into hydroxychloroquine
TEXAS CITY -- Three U.S. senators are demanding answers from federal agencies about how they’re tracking and regulating the use of hydroxychloroquine, a drug once touted as an effective treatment for COVID-19, in nursing homes.
U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bob Casey and Ron Wyden said they wanted more details about the drug’s use in nursing homes nationwide, after reviewing reports of that they called “inappropriate” use of the drug in Texas and Pennsylvania.
The senators, all Democrats, specifically cited concerns about how the drug was used to treat residents at The Resort at Texas City, site of the first major outbreak of COVID-19 announced in Galveston County.
In letters to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, the senators claimed the facility “was cited for treating cognitively impaired patients for COVID-19 without getting consent from their family or guardians first.”
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(Galveston County Daily News)
