State House Approves Bill To Expand Right To Try Law To COVID Treatments

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The Michigan House has approved a bill that will expand the state’s medical right-to-try law to include treatments for COVID-19. State Representative Mary Whiteford of Casco Township says her bill will give people more choice and more of a say in how they are treated for what is a serious illness.

“The reality is that people are dying of COVID, and a doctor is in the best situation to make that diagnosis,” Whiteford said. “Is that person terminal, and what kind of treatments might help and reverse course on COVID? That’s why we have the Right to Try Act and we amended it to include COVID treatments today.”

The measure would allow doctors to use treatments being used in either clinical trials or treatments or medications regularly used to treat other illnesses. Whiteford says politics need to be taken out of patient-doctor relationships.