WATCH: Maine physician Meryl Nass fights to get her license back after it was suspended for 'misinformation' and prescribing Ivermectin

One of the most egregious cases of the persecution of a physician for prescribing early treatment drugs for Covid-19 was heard today in Maine.

Click on the link below to watch the first part of the Maine medical board hearing concerning Dr. Meryl Nass. The hearing will continue on Oct. 25 beginning at 9 a.m.

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/maine-medical-board-meryl-nass-m-d-official-hearing

Dr. Meryl Nass, a physician in Maine, had her license to practice suspended in January of 2022 after the state medical board accused her of spreading “misinformation” and wrongfully prescribing Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

The board recently dropped all of the “misinformation” charges.

Testifying for the defense (supporting Dr. Nass) will be:

Dr. Harvey Risch, professor emeritus in epidemiology at Yale University

Dr. Paul Marik, pulmonary and critical care specialist

Dr. Robert Malone, co-inventor of the mRNA technology

Dr. Pierre Kory, formerly head of critical care at the UW Hospital

Dr. Steven Katsis of the Oklahoma Medical Board

You can read the opening statement from Meryl Nass’s attorneys HERE.

Below is an excerpt:

OPENING STATEMENT

On Behalf of Meryl Nass, M.D.

“No provision in our Constitution thought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.” Thomas Jefferson, Speech to the New London Methodists, 1809 in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. XVI.

My Name is Gene Libby and along with my partner, Tyler Smith, we are proud to represent Meryl Nass, M.D. in this unprecedented and novel attempt to discipline your colleague. Since the Hearing Officer requires us to submit our Opening Statement in writing, it is my obligation to synthesize a substantial amount of legal and factual information to help you understand that Dr. Nass is facing discipline only because she exercised her free speech rights against what Thomas Jefferson called “the civil authority.” Dr. Nass has practiced medicine 42 years without a patient complaint. She stands before you today without a patient complaint. The only complaint lodged against her was initiated by the Board of Licensure in Medicine (“BOLIM”), no patient has complained about her outpatient prescriptions for Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. No patient has complained that they received Dr. Nass’s services for these medications without their informed consent.

Dr. Nass is here only because she criticized the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines distributed and promoted by the Federal and State government. Indeed, her patients love and respect her. Dr. Nass is revered among her patients. She will introduce 286 pages of e-mails and letters mostly from her patients and others, attesting to her competency, care and responsiveness to patient needs. See Licensee Exhibit (“LE”) 157X. Dr. Nass is before you because she was caught up in a political cauldron that could not accept dissenting voices and attempted to vilify and discredit physicians who did not adopt the government narrative that mRNA vaccines were safe and effective.

The unprecedented public health emergency created by the pandemic began March 20, 2020, when Governor Mills entered one of many executive orders in response to the pandemic. It continues to this day. Not only do we have the events of 2 1/2 years to cover, but also the actions of the State and Federal government that were designed to restrict and limit the availability of two of the safest medications ever licensed by the FDA – Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Because there was no outpatient treatment available to people suffering with COVID at the inception of the pandemic, many doctors started treating patients with a long-standing, safe and effective anti-viral: hydroxychloroquine and/or ivermectin.

On June 15, 2020, the FDA revoked emergency use authorization (“EUA”) for chloroquine phosphate (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) based on doctored and erroneous information that the drugs may not be effective to treat COVID-19. Likewise, BOLIM alleges that the FDA has not authorized the use of Ivermectin for preventing or treating COVID-19. As you all know, and likely practice, once a drug is licensed by the FDA it may be used for any off-label purpose if a patient and a physician have a reasonable basis to believe it will treat the patient’s condition.

Dr. Nass wrote in her blog as early as June 28, 2020, an article entitled, “How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more.” She writes:

“It is remarkable that a large series of events taken place over the past months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), and produced similar policies about the drug in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe. The message is that generic, inexpensive hydroxychloroquine (costing only $1.00 to produce a full course) is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease, COVID-19, for which there are no (other) reliable treatments. Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients. And so the message was crafted that the drug is safe for its other uses, but dangerous when used for COVID-19. It doesn’t make sense, but it seems to have worked.”

“In the U.S., ‘never Trump’ morphed into ‘never hydroxychloroquine,’ and the result for the pandemic is ‘never over.’ But while anti-Trump spin is what characterized suppression strategies in the US, the frauds perpetrated about hydroxychloroquine and the pandemic include most western countries.”