Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak has faced pushback over an emergency regulation limiting the use of two medications that are being studied as possible treatments for COVID-19.
Sisolak signed an order Tuesday to stop people from hoarding two pharmaceutical drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
The regulations allow doctors to use the drugs for COVID-19 patients, but only in a clinical setting.
Demand for the medications rose sharply after President Trump said they were potential treatments, but the FDA has not approved their use for the new disease.
Dr. Robin Titus, a northern Nevada physician and Republican member of the state assembly, says Sisolak’s order was well-intentioned but went too far because she sees many of her patients during house calls rather than in a medical facility.