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California woman suing to force hospital to give intubated husband ivermectin
SF Gate ^ | September 23, 2021 | by Michelle Robertson

Posted on 09/23/2021 12:58:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A Bakersfield woman is suing the hospital treating her husband for severe COVID-19 in order to force doctors to give the patient ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug typically used to treat roundworm infections that physicians say is not an effective nor safe treatment for COVID.

The woman's husband is intubated in the COVID unit at San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, according to the complaint, which was obtained by Courthouse News and filed Sept. 17. The plaintiff is not seeking monetary or compensatory damages.

The complaint says the patient was admitted to the hospital a month ago for shortness of breath after testing positive for COVID. Doctors treated him with a host of different antibiotics and steroids, as well as high-flow oxygen, before intubating him. The man cannot breathe on his own, the complaint says.

The complaint states that a physician had written the patient a prescription for ivermectin, which the hospital's chief medical officer refused to fulfill. The medical authority "insisted that Ivermectin was not within the Hospital protocols and would not help her husband," the complaint says.

"It is the Hospital’s position that there is nothing further that can be done and they can only 'hope for the best,'" the complaint alleges.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; covid; ivermectin; michellerobertson; sfgate; wuhan
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1 posted on 09/23/2021 12:58:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The mistake was going to the hospital.


2 posted on 09/23/2021 1:00:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does Ivermectin need to be use early in the infection to work?


3 posted on 09/23/2021 1:00:54 PM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The CDC, Fauci and Main Stream Media are spreading LIES!!.... Ivermectin kills off Covid almost instantly..... Many countries are having great success with it.


4 posted on 09/23/2021 1:00:59 PM PDT by high info voter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

God bless them, both.

Prayers up.

Unreal that she’s having to sue the d@mn hospital, to get prescribed meds to her dear hubby.


5 posted on 09/23/2021 1:01:08 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can buy it. She should get her husband discharged and under the care of people who want to see her husband get better.


6 posted on 09/23/2021 1:02:08 PM PDT by Hildy (In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

> The mistake was going to the hospital.

Yep, any hospital will forbid “alternative treatments” in order to minimize their liability.


7 posted on 09/23/2021 1:02:21 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: DEPcom

Any effective treatment, given early, is best.

However....studies have been done (SEVERAL posted, here on FR) showing that even late stage treatment, with Ivm, can be beneficial.

Why not try? Right to try, right?


8 posted on 09/23/2021 1:02:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Hildy

I wonder how hard it is to get an intubated patient discharged. I have no idea.

Hopefully, she is also working of doing this, as well as getting him the Ivm.


9 posted on 09/23/2021 1:03:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: glorgau

I changed my living will to specifically forbid being placed on a ventilator.


10 posted on 09/23/2021 1:05:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So if ‘nothing can be done’ then giving the patient Ivermectin should be like a placebo right? They are afraid if he gets Ivermectin and just happens to recover then it opens up a can of worms for these tyrants to navigate in.


11 posted on 09/23/2021 1:05:47 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: high info voter

A friend of mine recently had covid. He was running a 104 temperature and was prescribed Ivermectin. He said that within hours of taking the Ivermectin that he was pretty much symptom free.


12 posted on 09/23/2021 1:06:31 PM PDT by TBall
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To: DEPcom

Generally yes, depends on the damage already done to the lungs. Often times after about two weeks, the virus has cleared the body but the damage done from the inflammation and any subsequent bacterial infections to lungs and other organs is too great to recover from.

There was a story about an older lady in Buffalo that the local courts ruled against the Hospital and forced Ivermectin use, who was vented and she did recover but I’m not sure she had been sick and vented as long as the person had been in this thread/story.


13 posted on 09/23/2021 1:09:43 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
a drug that physicians say is not an effective nor safe treatment for COVID

My 7th grade junior high school journalism teacher would have called me out for writing crap like that, without proper and specific attribution. Of course, little girls like Michelle aren't taught proper journalistic ethics or attribution, even as undergrads. They can just parrot whatever bullshit they personally read from some other incompetent rag, if they weren't first in to make it up, themselves.

14 posted on 09/23/2021 1:10:08 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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The “loving” hospitals deny, deny, deny... then intubate, intubate, intubate... “CDC/FDA protocols”

Financially opportunistic cowards.

You’ve paid substantial amounts of money into the unholy alliance of hospitals, docs, and their insurance treasury.

Remember these f#cks owe you!


15 posted on 09/23/2021 1:11:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: TBall

Sounds like the ivermectin caught the virus in the early stages(the initial high temps) before the virus could do its dirty work by causing a hyperinflammatory response in the body.


16 posted on 09/23/2021 1:14:14 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My God, why do we have to sue doctors/hospitals so they’ll do their job? SMH.


17 posted on 09/23/2021 1:14:51 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
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To: glorgau
" . . . any hospital will forbid “alternative treatments” in order to minimize their liability."

. . . hospital will forbid "alternative treatments" because there's no money in it. And if it works, it will counter the great agenda.

18 posted on 09/23/2021 1:15:37 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: glorgau

Will they forbid treatment if it’s listed in the medical power of attorney document that people use to list what they do and do not want done if hospitalized?


19 posted on 09/23/2021 1:16:33 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did you add specific meds ?


20 posted on 09/23/2021 1:17:02 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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