Posted on 08/30/2021 11:41:33 AM PDT by NoLibZone
A Butler County judge has ordered a hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin, a drug known to be used to treat or prevent parasites in animals, despite the CDC warning against it.
Judge Gregory Howard issued the order last week after a complaint was made by a woman named Julie Smith, on behalf of her 51-year-old husband, Jeffrey Smith, who has been in the ICU at West Chester Hospital battling COVID-19.
In the complaint, Julie stated that her husband had been on a ventilator for 19 days after attempts to use treatments like Remdesivir, plasma and steroids.
That's when she stated she sought medical advice from their physician Dr. Fred Waghsul. In the complaint, it states Waghsul supported the use of Ivermectin and prescribed it to him. After the hospital refused to administer the treatment, Julie filed the complaint.
In the complaint, she states that she has signed a full release, relieving the hospital from any and all liability concerning the administration of the Ivermectin.
In the order, Howard stated that after reviewing the complaint filed by Julie on behalf of her husband, he is ordering the hospital to administer the drug to Jeffrey.
The judge said the drug will be administered in accordance with Dr. Waghsul's, prescription, which is a 30-mg dose of Ivermectin daily for 21 days.
Ivermectin isn't the first medicine that has garnered the hopes of curious or vaccine-hesitant people as a potential treatment for COVID-19, but it's the one drawing potential patients to farm supply and pet stores across the country.
The FDA has been warning against the use of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 since March. The drug is used to treat parasitic infections, primarily in livestock, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently cautioned about an increase in reports to poison centers of severe illness caused by the drug.
In a CDC health advisory issued Thursday, the agency said the use of Ivermectin can result in "gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Overdoses are associated with hypotension and neurologic effects such as decreased consciousness, confusion, hallucinations, seizures, coma, and death."
While there are human uses for the drug, the Food and Drug Administration has not approved ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 in humans and the drug is not an anti-viral medication.
West Chester, Ohio. Northern suburb of Cincinnati. I used to live there.
“I do not like it when Judges start ordering medical treatment. Black robed tyranny is way out of hand.”
He is not ordering medical treatment he is ordering the Hospital to follow the patients Doctors treatment of Ivermectin.
Thanks.
I live in West Chester PA…
Iffy at best but if he does recover, don’t expect to see the MSM report it.
It was very clear why the judge intervened / got “involved in this”.
Ivermectin was prescribed by the patients MD(who was likely not hospital staff). The hospital refused to administer the Ivermectin.
As is generally the case, a lawsuit was filed by the patients wife on behalf of her spouse. The relief requested was that the hospital administer the ivermectin. The judge granted the relief requested - eg, administer the drugs prescribed by the patients physician.
The judge did the right thing here in granting relief.
This is how the legal system is designed to work in the USA (mostly).
Almost certainly not. The damage is done by then and mostly not recoverable.
A doctor told me that the survival rate for patients on a ventilator is about 50% for the first 24 hours. It goes down from there.
19 days is pretty impressive. The nurses must be exceptionally skilled.
read the article. The mans doctor prescribed ivermectin, because it definitely won’t hurt, and the hospital refused to administer. The judge is siding with the doctor against the hospital.
The judge essentially ALLOWED the hospital to administer the drug as requested by the WIFE. She brought a suit against the hospital.
Yup. So far there are four people here who did not read or understand the judge’s position on this matter.
And the question running through my mind is, what steps did she take to get the lawsuit filed, who helped her?
Knowing details like that would help other folks in the same situation.
Because the wife is trying to help her husband recover and the hospital won't even let them try this remedy.
CDC warns he could get diarrhea if overdosed with Ivermectin......but he is 19 days on the ventilator already.
Do you really think the CDC should be warning that a patient could get diarrhea if overdosed with Ivermectin, at this point of his struggle with life and death?
Doesn't he realize our "health" departments, big medical industry, and pharmaceutical giants run this country? Why, they can even allow you to break individual legal contracts with the wave of a wand. Those in these industries are very special, wise, and well credentialed. Just ask them - and the politicians they have bought!
CDC warns he could get diarrhea if overdosed with Ivermectin.
Isn’t diarrhea a side effect of most of the prescription drugs advertised on TV?
In general I agree, but the judge only sided with the family and the family doctor in this case. This was not an arbitrary intervention.
Because the wife and doctor asked for treatment that the hospital refused. What would you have done?
“Anecdotal”??? Seriously?
There are 30+ nations using Ivermectin as their protocol for treatment, all with great success. Keep your FDA/CDC propaganda along with your jab.
Perhaps I should have clarified that there is AT LEAST anecdotal evidence. Since the FDA keeps pushing the idea that somehow, unless it meets some yet to be specified peer reviewed, double blind, xyz study requirement, then a medication cant be used to treat Covid, the courts need to have some “cover” for pushing hospitals to conform to the patient’s wishes. In this case, since there is AT LEAST anecdotal (based on or consisting of reports or observations of usually unscientific observers) evidence that it works, it should be a choice available to the patient.
Now I agree, that many nations are showing great success with ivermectin, but if you fall into the FDA’s trap of having to justify use based on only their approved testing, then the power/decision is shifted to the FDA and that would be the opposite of what I am arguing.
But it was issued in response to a citizen’s appeal for a court order to do so. I think that’s a reasonable use.
Forget the CDC it’s nothing but Politics coming out of it’s backside
They conveniently ignore that more than 1 billion doses have been given to humans.
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