Posted on 11/11/2021 9:03:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An Illinois hospital defied an emergency court order over the weekend, refusing to allow an unvaccinated outside physician to give the cheap drug ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient who was dying while being treated with expensive remdesivir, before finally relenting after being scolded by a judge.
Some other hospitals have been ordered by courts to allow the drug to be used.
The legal fight in the Illinois state court system comes as studies continue on the effectiveness of ivermectin in treating COVID-19. The costly drug remdesivir has been given emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating certain categories of patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
Sun Ng, 71, who was visiting the United States from Hong Kong to celebrate his granddaughter’s first birthday, became ill with COVID-19 and was hospitalized at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois, on Oct. 14. His condition worsened dramatically and he was intubated and placed on a ventilator a few days later.
Ng’s daughter, Man Kwan Ng, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering, did her own research and decided her father should get ivermectin, which some medical doctors believe is potentially effective against COVID-19.
But against the daughter’s wishes, the hospital refused to administer the drug, and denied access to a physician willing to administer it. The daughter, who holds a power of attorney to make medical decisions on her father’s behalf, hired Chicago law firm Mauck and Baker and New York law firm Parlato Law, which is handling ivermectin litigation throughout the United States.
Attorney Kirstin M. Erickson of Mauck and Baker said the case “is about a daughter who wants to save her dad’s life.”
“Ivermectin has been highly effective and used in humans for over 30 years,” she told The Epoch Times in an interview. Resistance to its use is because “it’s not part of the, quote, standard of care in hospitals.”
“They’ve given him the treatment they give at the hospital, which is remdesivir, and that was ineffective, and he’s been on the ventilator for almost three weeks now,” the lawyer said.
“What I’ve learned in these cases is that ivermectin costs between $1 and $3 a pill where something like remdesivir is $3,000” per dose, she said.
“There could be some financial backing here, politically, other things motivating it,” Erickson said. “I don’t know what it is.”
The daughter went to court on her father’s behalf.
On Nov. 1, Judge Paul M. Fullerton of the Circuit Court of DuPage County granted a temporary restraining order requiring the hospital to allow ivermectin to be given to the patient.
The daughter, an only child, had been denied access to her father but at some point the same week, the hospital allowed her to see her father, Erickson said in the interview.
Although the hospital had been claiming the patient was doing well, it was clear he was not, the lawyer said, so the daughter took a picture of her desperately ill father on Nov. 4 and showed the graphic photograph to the judge to drive home the need for a new treatment plan.
At an evidentiary hearing before Fullerton on Nov. 5, it was pointed out that the preliminary injunction that the daughter was seeking was an extraordinary remedy. The judge said he agreed.
“I can’t think of a more extraordinary situation than when we are talking about a man’s life,” Fullerton said, according to court records.
Ng was admitted Oct. 14 and went on a respirator about Oct. 18, the judge recounted. “There is no dispute from the testimony of the doctors … that his risk of dying is over 50 percent.”
One physician testified that someone in Ng’s situation, which the judge described as “basically on his death bed,” has only a 10 to 15 percent of survival, the judge said.
Ivermectin “is not an FDA approved drug [sic],” Fullerton said.
In fact, ivermectin is approved for human use by the FDA, but not against COVID-19.
Certain formulations of ivermectin “are approved in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals. For humans, ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses to treat some parasitic worms” and other ailments, according to the FDA’s website.
Although “currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19,” there are clinical human trials in progress.
Ivermectin can have minor side effects such as dizziness, itchy skin, and diarrhea at the dosage suggested for Ng, Fullerton said, but the “risks of these side effects are so minimal that Mr. Ng’s current situation outweighs that risk by one-hundredfold.”
The judge issued a preliminary injunction Nov. 5 directing the hospital to “immediately allow … temporary emergency privileges” to Ng’s physician, Dr. Alan Bain, “solely to administer Ivermectin to this patient.”
Bain has treated many COVID-19 patients with ivermectin. Asked if the drug was responsible for saving the life of a specific patient he had successfully treated, he told Trial Site News in June: “I believe it had a very strong impact. It was a good addition to everything else. Ivermectin is the real deal.”
The hospital resisted the order Nov. 6 and 7, denying Bain access to his patient. The hospital claimed it could not let Bain in because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19 and that its chief medical officer was not available to “proctor” Bain administering ivermectin.
The daughter’s lawyers filed an emergency report with the court early Nov. 8 and Fullerton heard briefly from both sides. The judge admonished the hospital and restated that it must allow Bain inside over a period of 15 days to do his job. When the hospital filed a motion to stay the order, Fullerton denied it, again directing the facility to comply.
Erickson said Sun Ng is already improving with Ivermectin treatment. Ng passed a 60-minute breathing test that he could only previously tolerate for 5 minutes, she said.
“There’s been improvement already and we’re hoping for full recovery as soon as possible.”
Erickson said she hoped Fullerton’s ruling “will encourage hospitals to modify their COVID-protocols to incorporate more innovative drugs like ivermectin so that more lives are saved.”
The Epoch Times reached out to Joseph T. Monahan, the hospital’s attorney, for comment, but had not received a reply as of press time.
Waiting to give Ivermectin until he is dying makes as much sense as saying exercise is good for cardiovascular health, so when you come to the hospital in an ambulance for a heart attack you have to run the last three miles before you get a stent or a bypass.
Actually, Ivermectin works no matter how late you start it. You are right the earlier the better, but we have saved lifes very late in the process using it.
Just to be clear, Ivermectin and zinc kills the virus. Ivermectin is the delivery system and the zinc is the killer.
Me and my family,have had “the crud” 4 times since covid began. I can’t say that it was covid, because tests, which were faulty back then anyways, indicated no covid. This crud really knocked us for a loop, and I got it 4 times, each time was bad til,,the ,ast one when I had ivermectin, the vet kind, not prescription, and I took it when symptoms began getting bad that .ast time again, and immediately felt better. The next day I was to life as usual, with just some leftover weakness to work through. Since then I have had more minor illnesses, and have taken it and felt better again almost immediately.
I don’t know what I had, cold, flu, covid, whatever it was, the ivermectin seemed to realy help knock them out quick
I think you’ve confused
Ivermectin with Hydroxychloroquine
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May sound heartless, but follow the money. A patient on a vent for a month before dying renders a lot more money to the hospital than a patient given Ivermectin and off a vet in three days and gone home. These evil hospital admins are amassing quite a blood libel.
I’ve heard that the earlier you take it, the more effective it is. It may be a cure for the flu and colds as well. :)
BTW, my brother and his friend had a central american source of ivermectin shipped from the US with the label, “for export only”. 🤣
Ivermectin should be used in conjunction with traditional or new drugs to treat covid when necessary. It’s a crime not to use both together if there is even a small chance it can work, but we are seeingmthat there is a ,are chance it does work (the ivermectin I mean) so,there is no valid reason that I know of not to throw everything one can at covid if folks get it badly. I haven’t read anything that shows that combining ivermectin, or hcq, or even both is necessary, with new drugs meant for covid will,cause the new drugs not to work as designed.
There just seems 4o be no downside 5o trying ivermectin, hcq along with new drugs designed to fight covid whe. Hospitalized. And if folks were given ivermectin to use as a preventative, who knows how many cases might not have had to go to the hospital in the first place?
It seems to me that doctors fighting against ivermectin use in combination with traditional or new drugs for covid are violating their professions oath. I can’t understand why, with all of the info, all of The studies done now, the peer reviewed studies etc, supporting the safe effective use of ivermectin, that they are still fighting its use?
Wow! The us is responsible for possibly many 10’s of 1000’s of unnecessary deaths because they woild not allow ivermectin. The opposition to here it is truly Satanic
I hope it does curd colds and flues too. Will,be my go to med for them now. Eofre I just suffered through them without taking anything. But I woild get flu shot each year, but new flues would come along, and I’d end up with them usually
I’ll bet many doctors and nurses take it themselves (as they have to deal day in and day out with sick folks, so their chances are higher of getting sick it woild seem)
I wish an investigator would investigate if they do or not and get that info out to,the public, like investigative reporters exposed the facts that 160 congress folks have used ivermectin when they got covid, while it is denied to the rest of us
Remdisivir (I know you and many others on here already know, SeekAndFind) is a killer drug. That’s why they insist on it. It is all part of the culling which is all part of the great reset. Much like the outlawing of effective cheap early treatment protocols - go home and fester until you’re to the point of hospitalization, then they’ll bring you in the hospital to finish you off.
RE: Remdisivir is a killer drug.
Remdesivir was approved after just ONE positive clinical study.
Compare that to Ivermectin, which has SCORES of studies worldwide.
You have conflated two treatment regimens. Zinc plus an ionophone (HCQ, quercetin, EGCG) stops replication by shifting the internal pH of the cell. Ivermectin operates by disabling the 3CL protease that chops up the viral poly-protein into functional subunits. Ivermectin has other modes of action as well.
I had a stewardess friend bring me some from France. It is OTC there, but the pharmacist dispenses it.
Well and truly stated. Have you any data on how fenbendazole works? It is also dispensed as horse paste with apple flavor to kill worms (I assume by the protease inhibition route, also).
Yes remdesivir causes acute respiratory problems. Then they put you on a ventilator and let you die.
My best friend’s mom just got diagnosed with vivid yesterday. She’s been sick for 6 days and only went to urgent care yesterday. She was feeling g pretty bad. They diagnosed her and then just sent her home with no meds. So my friend who just got a full regimen of HCQ, Ivermectin and zpak for herself and her husband and two kids from a doctor we know who has a boutique practice (no insurance) gave her mom a one person dosage yesterday. Today she went over to check on Mom and Mom was just pulling g up in her car from getting g take out at IHOP. So another happy ending.
“Ivermectin and zinc kills the virus. Ivermectin is the delivery system and the zinc is the killer.”
Dubious imo. I was on 400% RDA zinc supplements in Jan ‘20 when I came down with Covid and was hospitalized. I have long Covid and haven’t noticed zinc making a difference. 12mg ivermectin every 3 days has made a distinct difference in my energy levels and overall health. No more lingering chest congestion, cough and reduced brain fog.
Are you sure about that? I know that HCQ is a zinc ionophore, but I do not think Ivermectin is. It’s mechanism is different, as I understand it, it blocks the spike protein from entering cells. Because HCQ and IVM work differently, some people choose to take both if one of them doesn’t knock it out.
The fact that there have been so many competing decisions on this issue tells you that the law has nothing to do with their decisions.
What if the new drugs are the problem Bob?
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