Almost sounds like a night out with the Captain.
Posted on 09/04/2021 4:17:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
More hospitals see lawsuits from family members of COVID-19 patients seeking the drug
As hospitals continue to admit COVID-19 patients, some are contending with demands from family members to attempt to treat their loved ones with ivermectin.
Just last week, the CDC warned healthcare professionals to steer patients away from the drug. But that hasn't stopped the pressure on hospitals, and the outcomes of new legal cases to force hospitals to provide the drug to struggling, ventilated patients have been mixed.
In the case of Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois, a Sangamon County judge earlier this week ruled in favor of the hospital, the State Journal-Register reported.
Anita Clouse had sought to force Memorial Medical Center, part of Memorial Health System, to allow her husband, Randy Clouse, 61, to receive ivermectin, the State Journal-Register reported. Ralph Lorigo, a New York lawyer who represents Anita and has also taken on a bevy of other ivermectin cases, said in a court hearing that "she should have a right to try to save her husband."
However, Memorial Medical Center countered in court documents that Randy Clouse's condition was improving, and that he no longer had an active COVID infection, the State Journal-Register reported. The hospital further said that Clouse's physicians "believe administration of ivermectin will likely result in kidney and lung damage, which can lead to organ failure and death."
Randy and Anita Clouse were both unvaccinated and contracted COVID in July, the State Journal-Register reported. Anita had only mild symptoms, but Randy was admitted to the hospital shortly after he tested positive, and has since been placed on a ventilator and started on dialysis, the State Journal-Register reported, citing court documents.
Anita Clouse told the State Journal-Register that she and her husband knew about ivermectin before it was discussed by Fox News commentators because the couple bred German Shepherds and had given the drug to their dogs for parasites. She said that her husband previously told her he would want to receive the drug should he become sick with COVID.
Though the courts sided with the hospital in the Springfield case, a judge in Cincinnati, Ohio recently ruled in favor of a patient's family.
Last week, a Butler County judge ordered West Chester Hospital, part of the University of Cincinnati (UC Health) network, to provide Jeffrey Smith, 51, with ivermectin, the Ohio Capital Journal reported. In that case, Jeffrey's wife, Julie Smith, found ivermectin on her own and filed suit against the hospital. Julie is also represented by Lorigo.
The Ohio Capital Journal reported that court records show Jeffrey Smith contracted COVID in July, was subsequently admitted to the hospital, and placed on a ventilator at the beginning of August. It is not clear whether he was vaccinated.
Court records in the case against West Chester Hospital further show that Julie Smith reached out to Fred Wagshul, MD, who prescribed ivermectin to her husband before the hospital refused to provide it, according to the Ohio Capital Journal. Wagshul is listed in the suit as a founding physician of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, which as MedPage Today previously reported, has long promoted ivermectin.
Though federal agencies have continued to warn against the use of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID as well as about its potentially deleterious side effects, proponents have pointed to purported success stories.
Earlier this year, in another case in Illinois, a DuPage County judge ordered Edward-Elmhurst Hospital to allow 68-year-old COVID patient Nurije Fype to receive ivermectin.
Chicago internist, Alan Bain, MD -- who administered ivermectin to Nurije Fype (and prescribed it to Randy Clouse, along with other COVID patients) -- testified at a court hearing this week that Fype was weaned off a ventilator and discharged from the hospital after receiving small amounts of the drug for 20 consecutive days, the State Journal-Register reported.
Nurije Fype's daughter, Desareta Fype, had learned of ivermectin after reading about its use in another COVID patient in the Buffalo News, the Chicago Tribune reported. That story detailed how, after a judge ordered Western New York's Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital to give 80-year-old Judith Smentkiewicz ivermectin, her family and attorneys believed the drug saved her life.
It was not immediately clear, however, what direct effect ivermectin may have had on the hospital discharges of Nurije Fype or Judith Smentkiewicz. Physicians say these patients may have recovered on their own, without the drug.
The CDC reiterated in its warning to healthcare professionals last week that ivermectin is not authorized or approved by the FDA for the prevention or treatment of COVID. The agency added that the NIH has also determined there are currently insufficient data to recommend ivermectin for the treatment of COVID.
The CDC did say that there are ongoing clinical trials that might provide more information about these "hypothesized uses."
Lorigo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the recent ivermectin cases in Illinois and Ohio. A spokesperson for Memorial Health System declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for UC Health.
Likely related...
https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/4-PREP-Act.aspx
No immunity from liability for prescribing Ivermectin...?
If it’s not a covered countermeasure, three guesses why they refuse to prescribe it?
Hint: the reason has ZERO to do with whether or not the med will work for the patient.
Sorry people you have to go to the Black Market and get the Horse Dose
Like what? They never say...
The Swamp machine does not want a cure. It wants a crisis it can continue to exploit.
Call your doctor at once if you have:
eye pain or redness, puffy eyes, problems with your vision;
severe skin rash, itching, or rash with pus;
confusion, change in your mental status, balance problems, trouble walking;
fever, swollen glands, stomach pain, joint pain, swelling in your hands or feet;
fast heart rate, trouble breathing;
loss of bladder or bowel control;
neck or back pain, seizure (convulsions); or
a light-headed feeling, like you might pass out.
Common ivermectin side effects may include:
headache, muscle aches;
dizziness;
nausea, diarrhea; or
mild skin rash.
From the article:
...”The hospital further said that Clouse’s physicians “believe administration of ivermectin will likely result in kidney and lung damage, which can lead to organ failure and death...”
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I know covid can cause those complications but I haven’t read any reports (to date) that ivermectin can cause them. Is this information documented by these doctors? If true I would be surpised at how frequently it’s used by doctors to treat parasites. I would expect these doctors to be widely interviewed to pass along this alarming information, wouldn’t you? If they don’t, I would wonder why they would make these claims.
Check yourself out of the hospital, head down to the nearest feed and grain store, buy your own ivermectin, take it, problem solved.
Maybe they claim being hospitalized is a special situation where it can happen.
Yep. They need to keep the populace frightened and compliant. Wouldn’t shock me if some of Faixi’s pals in China are busy coming up with a newer, better virus as we speak. But I’m a die hard cynic.
potentially deleterious side effects
Unlike the vaccines ??
Ivermectin fights replication of the virus. FAR better not to wait until you are hospitalized at deaths door on a ventilator, and AFTER a court procedure to have an unwilling doctor forced to administer it.
Have it on hand, use at the very first symptom... hopefully never meet that Doctor you’ll need to sue.
Almost sounds like a night out with the Captain.
Drama. If taken in the correct dose it has a better track record than Tylenol.
Tylenol and Aspirin will both kill you if you take seven times the standard dose.
The standard dose is famously benign in side effects.
isn’t the virus itself pretty much gonzo after 14=20 days of infection?. (that’s where the 14-day quarantine protocol came from). The hospital is mostly dealing with the damage left behind, right?. So if there’s very little actual virus in a vented patient, how does invermectin help at all?
memory lane:
“ Most adults with more severe to critical illness or severe immunocompromise likely remain infectious no longer than 20 days after symptom onset...”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html
And only an idiot would give themselves a horse dose. The syringe has click increments for dosing based on weight. The syringe is clearly marked and the instructions tell you how to do it.
Or you can look on the internet which is full of info on how to dose.
If you still manage to do it wrong, you’ll probably be fine since Ivermectin has such low toxicity. That’s why they’re able to hand it out like candy in third world countries.
No one is dying from this stuff.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011
They have known for over a year that ivermectin inhibits the replication of the COVID virus. In vitro. Any real clinical trials after that?
Why not? $$$$$$$$$
Safety of inhaled ivermectin as a repurposed direct drug for treatment of COVID-19: A preclinical tolerance study
Moreover, lungs treated with ivermectin (0.2 mg/kg) revealed mild histopathological alterations, while severe pulmonary damage was seen in rats treated with ivermectin at doses of 0.4 and 0.8 mg/kg. However, ivermectin-HP-β-CD formulation administered in doses of 0.05 and 0.1 mg/kg revealed safety profiles.
This study pertains to inhaled iver, but orally ingested iver also migrates to the lungs so it is possible the same damage could occur as seen in inhaled trials. Additionally, iver can make bronchitis and/or asthma worse, which is not a wanted result — inflamed upper respiratory may complicate matters.
When is NIH going to be sued for their grim reaper protocol? When us Fauci going to find his just punishment?
Thanks for the info!
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