Posted on 10/06/2021 7:23:59 PM PDT by The Bugler
BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (KXAN) — A COVID-19 patient whose wife sued an Ohio hospital to force the facility to treat her husband with the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin has died.
Fifty-one year-old Jeffrey Smith died Sept. 25 after a monthslong coronavirus battle in the ICU, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Smith’s story made headlines back in August, when a judge in Butler County, Ohio, ruled in favor of Smith’s wife Julie Smith, who demanded the hospital give her husband ivermectin.
The Ohio Capital Journal reported Judge Gregory Howard ordered West Chester Hospital to give Smith 30 milligrams of Ivermectin every day for three weeks. Ivermectin, which can be oral or topical, is not FDA approved for the treatment of COVID-19 in humans. A large study out of Egypt that proponents of the unproven drug pointed to has been retracted. While Ivermectin is approved for humans to treat certain skin conditions (rosacea) and certain external parasites like head lice, the FDA warns human ivermectin is different than the one used in animals. Animal-specific concentrations, like those that may be available at livestock stores, are intended for large animals like horses and elephants, and these doses can be treacherous for humans
In her lawsuit, Julie Smith claimed she offered to sign documents releasing all other parties, doctors and the hospital from all liability related to the dosage. But the hospital declined. Smith said her husband, who was on a ventilator, had a very slim chance of survival and she was willing to try anything to keep him alive.
Another Butler County judge reversed Howard’s decision in September, saying Ivermectin didn’t show “convincing evidence” in treating COVID-19. Butler County Judge Michael Oster said in his ruling, “judges are not doctors or nurses… public policy should not and does not support allowing a physician to try ‘any’ type of treatment on human beings.”
Oster explained: “Even [Smith’s] own doctor could not say [that] continued use of Ivermectin would benefit him… After considering all of the evidence presented in this case, there can be no doubt that the medical and scientific communities do not support the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.”
Nevertheless, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports, Julie Smith told Judge Oster she believed the drug was working.
Now they should sue the hospital for not getting him on the drug sooner. Everything I’ve heard from unbiased and experienced doctors as the most effective early on in the symptoms first start. If you have to go to court that’s at least a week or two delay. I’ve said it once, I will say it again, today’s doctors are the lap dogs of the pharmaceutical companies.
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Makes sense. Don’t they get more money for that?
Not always the case. My nephew had severe pneumonia when I got him to go to the IR. His lungs were "half full" of fluid, and his oxygen saturation was down to 85. His pneumonia was getting worse and there was no choice but ventilation.
He knew about Ivermectin. The people he caught the covid from offered him a course that they had already got for him, but he refused it.
His refusal of Ivermectin may be what killed him.
“...and these doses can be treacherous for humans”
If you give an elephant dose to a horse it will be treacherous for the horse too.
Have sources? Links? Or just hyperventilating off the hip.
That is a great analogy. Why did I not think of that?
Are the protocols for needing intubation different for covid than other respiratory distress?
The only reason to put a Coronavirus patient on a ventilator is to kill them.
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They put them on vent and forget to slowly wean them off. So they are vent dependent. How did our med system get so unprofessionsal and cruel?
Ignore his comments regarding ventilators. I had posted actual data from an actual American hospital where overwhelming majority of seriously ill covid patients have recovered using the ventilators, thanks to president Trump for pushing production of ventilators way up.
Are the protocols for needing intubation different for covid than other respiratory distress?
His quacks should be ashamed of themselves.
The only thing that may save your life in far advanced virus disease is a large amount of intravenous vitamin C. And they only use it in hospitals in China http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n16.shtml . The CCP wants to kill us, not die from their own virus.
I enjoyed the red rubber clown noses on the BBC newspuppets Rachel Schraer & Jack Goodman...
Ignore his comments regarding ventilators. He works for a company that sells them.
She should have removed him from the hospital and gotten him treated by a doctor that actually gave a crap.
That explains a lot, lol
That’s just one of hundreds, do your own research. BBS is not a source.
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