Consider this: If you're a child at an elementary school, you get a headache.

[no_hypocrisy]

You're sent to The Nurse. The Nurse takes your temperature, gives you a cup of water, and has you lie down. Then she makes a choice: send you back to class or to call a parent to pick you up and take you home. AT NO TIME DOES SHE DISPENSE AS MUCH AS A BABY ASPIRIN ever though she is a Registered Nurse.

Now, by contrast, you have a President, with no medical training whatsoever, hawking an UNPROVEN ALLEGED "CURE." And making disclaimers to cover his ass that he doesn't know if it will work. And there are people rushing to get this medication that people suffering from auto-immune diseases such as Lupus NEED NOW.

[milestogo]

1. How can they get it without a prescription?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Aspirin and Baby Aspirin are both over-the-counter, not necessitating a prescription.

When I was a kid, the Nurse would give us that small a dosage for everything from a headache to menstrual cramps.

If you were referring to Trump's choice of cure, you go to your doctor. Either s/he gives you a squib or s/he sends you packing.

[Ilsa]

5. Nurses (and parents) never give aspirin to children

due to Reyes Syndrome.

Parents have to bring a supply of meds that are given daily or as needed, and there is usually a signed document from the doctor about their medical and Rx needs. Some details will vary by school district and by state because of licensing and standards of care for nurses.

[3catwoman3]

6. These days, most schools require paperwork from the pediatric office for meds...

...of any kind, even over the counter products. A bit of overkill, in my opinion.

My own feeling is that if a parent can buy a product without a prescription, then a parent should be able to give permission to the school to give it. Professionals' time should not be taken up filling out paperwork for Tylenol.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Yep. My kids needed a school form signed by their doctor/pediatrician for any drug, inc. ibuprofen.

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Anything besides ibuprofen had to be supplied in its original packaging or prescription bottle.

Ibuprofen was supplied by the school.

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[milestogo]

10. Per the OP I was referring to hydroxychloroquine, not aspirin.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. As it was unclear, I covered both aspirin and hydroxychloroquine.

[Ilsa]

3. They can't unless they do so illegally.

And pharmacies will have to post notices "We do not keep hydrochloroquine on premises" to dissuade black market thieves and profiteers.

They used to have to post that they didn't keep oxycodone anymore.

[Igel]

9. They need a prescription.

A lot of doctors are pay-to-play. You pay them, they write prescriptions.

It's how a lot of the opiate addition disaster happened.

It wasn't coincidence that before legalization of weed in CA the profile of the recipients of medical marijuana was the same as the profile for people who used marijuana without a prescription. We'd either have to conclude that only those with a medical need used weed illegally, or doctors took the broad view and said any excuse claimed was adequate. (It's also worth notice that the data showed a very small number of doctors wrote the vast majority of scripts for MM.)

[unblock]

4. Aspirin is contraindicated for children with fever or possible viruses

So yeah, even something as simple as aspirin shouldn't be doled out recklessly, never mind this crap Donnie is hawking, which is apparently lethal at just double the normal dosage....

[3catwoman3]

7. It has probably been in the neighborhood of 30 years since...

...pediatricians started telling parents not to give aspirin to kids.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Shows what you know.

Trumps got common sense.