{"id":15001,"date":"2021-09-17T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2021-09-17T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:45:16","slug":"polk-commission-rejects-to-send-a-letter-to-desantis-promoting-ivermectin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/09\/17\/polk-commission-rejects-to-send-a-letter-to-desantis-promoting-ivermectin\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk Commission rejects to send a letter to DeSantis promoting ivermectin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The majority of the Polk County Commission on Friday rejected a proposal to send a letter to Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis promoting patients\u2019 right to try ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as possible COVID treatment options.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioner Neil Combee, the author of the letter, has for weeks shared frustration with the medical community for \u201crefusing to prescribe these safe and effective therapeutics,\u201d as he wrote in the letter. He said these drugs are \u201clow-risk, inexpensive, and otherwise widely available.\u201d He believes that if a patient wants these drugs, they should be able to get them, regardless of what federal health agencies say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the revised letter that Polk County Commissioner Neil Combee wants to send to Gov. DeSantis promoting patients\u2019 right to try alternative therapeutics like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.<br> <br>It needs approval from the rest of the commission. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JYwh3g6Jui\">pic.twitter.com\/JYwh3g6Jui<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Wyatt (@LLDustin_Wyatt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLDustin_Wyatt\/status\/1438850027812708356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With only Commissioner Bill Braswell supporting the letter as written, Combee said he will send his own letter to DeSantis making his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combee\u2019s crusade has&nbsp;gotten pushback from top doctors and hospital leaders in the county. At a Sept. 7 meeting, Dr. Joy Jackson, director of the Florida Department of Health in Polk County, and Dr. Daniel Haight, vice president of community health at Lakeland Regional, encouraged the commission not to send the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivermectin, a parasite drug, and hydroxychloroquine, an autoimmune drug,\u00a0are not yet proven to impact COVID-19 and are not supported for that purpose by the federal Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Medical Association, and other leading agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioners Martha Santiago, Rick Wilson, and George Lindsey voted against Combee\u2019s letter Friday morning during a work session.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to send anything promoting specific drugs,&#8221; Santiago said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of the Polk County Commission on Friday rejected a proposal to send a letter to Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis promoting patients\u2019 right to try ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as possible COVID&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[1206],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-commission-rejects-to-send-a-letter-to-desantis-promoting-ivermectin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}