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Judge orders West Chester Hospital to treat COVID-19 patient with anti-parasite drug despite CDC warning
WLWT. / msn ^ | August 30, 2021 | Wlwt

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.


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To: EEGator

West Chester, Ohio. Northern suburb of Cincinnati. I used to live there.


21 posted on 08/30/2021 12:02:11 PM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Bayan

“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.


22 posted on 08/30/2021 12:03:22 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: KarlInOhio; day10

Thanks.

I live in West Chester PA…


23 posted on 08/30/2021 12:04:35 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ifinnegan

Iffy at best but if he does recover, don’t expect to see the MSM report it.


24 posted on 08/30/2021 12:06:07 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: PGR88

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).


25 posted on 08/30/2021 12:06:30 PM PDT by monkeypants (It's a Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: ifinnegan
Will ivermectin help after 19 days on a ventilator?

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.

26 posted on 08/30/2021 12:06:57 PM PDT by flamberge (Time has run out. Work with what you've got.)
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To: Bayan

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.


27 posted on 08/30/2021 12:11:43 PM PDT by delapaz
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To: Bayan

The judge essentially ALLOWED the hospital to administer the drug as requested by the WIFE. She brought a suit against the hospital.


28 posted on 08/30/2021 12:12:51 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: JoSixChip; All

Yup. So far there are four people here who did not read or understand the judge’s position on this matter.


29 posted on 08/30/2021 12:14:31 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: monkeypants

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.


30 posted on 08/30/2021 12:14:59 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000) )
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To: PGR88
WHy is a judge even involved in this?

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?

31 posted on 08/30/2021 12:25:09 PM PDT by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: NoLibZone
How dare that impertinent judge interfere with the hospital's COVID death protocols!!?? There are some BIG profits involved here!

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!

32 posted on 08/30/2021 12:45:40 PM PDT by Gritty (All those who’ve lied about everything for 5 years are the ones demanding I take the vaccine-JKelly)
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To: proud2beconservativeinNJ

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?


33 posted on 08/30/2021 12:46:43 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Bayan
I do not like it when Judges start ordering medical treatment. Black robed tyranny is way out of hand.

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.

34 posted on 08/30/2021 12:47:42 PM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: PGR88
WHy is a judge even involved in this?

Because the wife and doctor asked for treatment that the hospital refused. What would you have done?

35 posted on 08/30/2021 12:49:00 PM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: taxcontrol

“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.


36 posted on 08/30/2021 12:53:40 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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To: datura

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.


37 posted on 08/30/2021 1:01:35 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: Bayan

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.


38 posted on 08/30/2021 1:16:01 PM PDT by livius
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To: NoLibZone

Forget the CDC it’s nothing but Politics coming out of it’s backside


39 posted on 08/30/2021 1:20:12 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: NoLibZone

They conveniently ignore that more than 1 billion doses have been given to humans.


40 posted on 08/30/2021 1:24:40 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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