Judge orders hospital to treat Ohio Covid patient with ivermectin

[Northerner]

A judge in Ohio ordered a hospital to treat a Covid-19 patient with ivermectin, despite warnings from experts that the anti-parasitic drug has not proved effective against the virus and can be dangerous in large doses.

Gregory Howard, a judge in Butler county, outside Cincinnati, ordered doctors at West Chester hospital to administer ivermectin to Jeffrey Smith, 51, who contracted Covid-19 in July and was transferred to intensive care.

“My husband is on death’s doorstep,” Julie Smith wrote in court documents. “He has no other options.”

A doctor outside the hospital was willing to prescribe the drug but the hospital refused to administer it. The judge ordered that Smith receive 30mg for three weeks.

Ivermectin is most commonly used against parasites in livestock animals including horses and cows. It is also used in humans, against some parasitic worms and external parasites like head lice.

Judge orders hospital to treat Ohio Covid patient with ivermectin

Anti-parasitic drug can be dangerous in large doses but Jeffrey Smith, 51, to receive 30mg for three weeks

www.theguardian.com

Unbelievable 😱

 

[AndBreathe]

@Northerner , you might find this article to be a bit of a straightener: https://www.mountainhomemag.com/2021/05/01/356270/the-drug-that-cracked-covid

 

[Bruce Stephens]

@Northerner , you might find this article to be a bit of a straightener: https://www.mountainhomemag.com/2021/05/01/356270/the-drug-that-cracked-covid

So it's a miracle drug that works at any stage (can use it before you get the virus or any time after) and is safe and really effective. But somehow the results from meta-analysis turn out meh, unless you include dodgy looking (now retracted) trials.

 

[Robin]

Why don’t we just wait for the Oxford University research to report.

Ivermectin to be investigated as a possible treatment for COVID-19 in Oxford’s PRINCIPLE trial | University of Oxford

23 June 2021

www.ox.ac.uk

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Why don’t we just wait for the Oxford University research to report.

Because they're giving it too late. Or the doses are wrong. Or something.

 

[AndBreathe]

So it's a miracle drug that works at any stage (can use it before you get the virus or any time after) and is safe and really effective. But somehow the results from meta-analysis turn out meh, unless you include dodgy looking (now retracted) trials.

Nothing changes if people have closed minds. Whilst a totally different topic, when I was diagnosed T2, those trying a low-carb diet were pilloried for being stupid, adopting unsustainable or dangerous ways of eating. How the tide has turned for so, so man in a relatively short period.

I'm not suggesting Ivermectin would necessarily be my treatment of choice (aside from all else, I'd much rather not develop Covid), but if a loved one of mine was marching to life's exit due to Covid, with no further treatment being offered, or indeed that were me, I'd prefer to try anything than just let them expire in a supervised manner.

Thankfully, thus far, I, and my loved ones, have had the luxury of a wait and see strategy. Let's face it, most people recover from Covid. Most don't become ill, but for those who are catastrophically impacted doing nothing is ireprehinsible.

 

[mikeyB]

The rather long tale that @AndBreathe posted is about a miracle working cure he had for folks really ill with Covid. He used his HAT therapy - hydrocortisone, ascorbic acid and thiamine. That a steroid and a couple of irrelevant vitamins.

I presume this miracle worker had read about the now standard treatment in the UK, Dexamethasone (a steroid, as is hydrocortisone) plus other support such as anticoagulants. So the “miracle” treatment that the doctor used, unsurprisingly to him, with his knowledge of steroids, worked. But astonished the onlookers.

The USA constantly surprises me. It seems some parts are almost third word areas.

With regard to the judge orderin Invermectin to be used is no surprise. You might as well try it, he’s probably going to die anyway. I assume he refused to be vaccinated. You don’t play dice with Covid.
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[AndBreathe]

.... You might as well try it, he’s probably going to die anyway. ....

That was exactly my point.

My father died from a condition in which his lungs lost the inability to pass the vast majority his breathed oxygen into his blood supply and thereon to his organs. In it's end stages, I imagine Covid would be largely similar.

Anyone who has witnessed this sort of demise would want to try anything that could alleviate the suffering for a better outcome that that which the patient faces.

The online tool (embedded in the information page) is quite interesting for Ivermectin. https://www.poison.org/articles/ivermectin-your-dogs-heartworm-medicine-173