Reynolds said the Illinois Pharmacists Association has started reaching out to pharmacists and medical groups throughout the state to urge doctors, nurses and physician assistants not to write prescriptions for themselves and those close to them.
"We even had a couple of examples of prescribers trying to say that the individual they were calling in for had rheumatoid arthritis," he said, explaining that pharmacists suspected that wasn't true. "I mean, that's fraud."
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Lupus patients are reporting difficulty in refilling their prescriptions for the drug. On Monday, the Lupus Foundation of America issued a joint statement asking the White House Coronavirus Task Force to "take action to ensure current supplies are allocated for patients taking them for indicated uses." Several states in the past few days have already moved to limit prescriptions of the drugs, neither of which is approved to treat the coronavirus. Trump, in press conferences and tweets over the past week, has promoted the use of the drugs as potentially blunting the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.
"It's unfortunate that a news conference, I think prematurely, made it sound like this was the answer, and that's led to this panic," Michelle Petri, director of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Lupus Center, said Friday. "I have spent the last two days trying to help lupus patients who actually need their refills." She said some patients have refills on back order while others are being provided smaller amounts than usual.
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