"We are living in an era where everything is so heavily polarized, so it was disappointing but not entirely surprising to see that physicians are not able to completely put aside their ideological biases when they approach clinical decision making," said Kahn, who is also a critical care physician at UPMC."
This is in regards to a drug that is supersafe, and whose efficacy is in limbo somewhere between no benefit and a small insignificant benefit (like masks!), at a time when ZERO treatments are medically approved for those that simply test positive for Coronavirus.
The article is based on the premise doctors should not have a personal relationship with their patients and just follow a flowchart.
It basically advocates for undoing longstanding tradition of off-label prescriptions for medical ailments.
Does anyone want another useful norm destroyed by covid?
Because that's what this is all about, doctors prescribing low risk medication offlabel to patients, and the government and medical and disinformation units wishing to end the practice and turn doctors into obidient automatons.
To be clear, the concensus on the drug in question is not that it is hurtful, but that it is useless, or its effectiveness so minute as to be in the realm of statistically insignificant.