Ohio judge orders that COVID-19 patient be treated with ivermectin which no agency recommends – New York Post

An Ohio judge on Monday ordered a hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with ivermectin an unproven virus treatment and livestock dewormer going against CDC and FDA recommendations.

Jeffrey Smith, 51, contracted the coronavirus in early July and has been in the intensive care unit on a ventilator at West Chester Hospital in Cincinnati for weeks, according to the Ohio Capital Journal.His wife, Julie Smith, filed a lawsuit against the hospital on Aug. 20, demanding an emergency order for the use of the animal medication in a Butler County court in a last-ditch effort to keep her husband alive as he suffers on deaths doorstep.

On Aug. 23, Butler County Judge Gregory Howard ordered that Dr. Fred Wagshuls prescription of 30 milligrams of ivermectin daily for three weeks be filled, as requested by his wife and his legal guardian.

Ivermectin is approved for both humans and animals, but animal drugs are concentrated at levels that can be highly toxic for humans. The FDA has no data proving ivermectins use as a COVID treatment, and warned Americans they are not livestock amid a rise in poison control calls from people suffering side effects.

Smith was admitted on July 15 to the hospital, where he was moved to the ICU and treated with the hospitals COVID-19 protocol, which included plasma, steroids and doses of remdesivir, an antiviral medication, according to court documents.

On July 27, after a period of relative stability, Jeffreys condition began to decline, the lawsuit says, and Jeffrey became unstable as his oxygen levels dropped. His condition continued to decline and he was sedated, intubated and placed on a ventilator on Aug. 1.

Several subsequent serious infections left Smith with a roughly 30 percent chance of survival by Aug. 20, when he remained on the ventilator in a medically induced coma.

At his point, the Defendant [hospital] has exhausted its course of treatment and COVID-19 protocol in treating Jeffrey, which is unacceptable to Ms. Smith, the lawsuit states.

Jeffrey has been on a ventilator for 19 days, the complaint continues. He is on deaths doorstep; there is no further COVID-19 treatment protocol for the Defendant to offer to Jeffrey; Ms. Smith does not want to see her husband die, and she is doing everything she can to give him a chance.

The lawsuit did not mention whether Jeffrey Smith had been vaccinated, though of the 21,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations since Jan. 1, only 500 patients have been vaccinated, the Capital Journal reported.

The Smiths have been married for 24 years and have three children, according to documents. Jeffrey is an engineer with Verizon.

Julie Smith took it upon herself to get in touch with Wagshul, a leading proponent of ivermectin from Dayton and founder of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, who wrote the prescription for the drug. However, the hospital refused to administer it to her husband.

Wagshul told the Ohio Capital Journal that there was irrefutable evidence supporting the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19, and alleged a conspiracy to block its use by the CDC and FDA to continue its authorization of the available coronavirus vaccines.

If we were a country looking at another country allowing those (COVID-19) deaths daily we would have been screaming, Genocide! he told the paper.

Dr. Leanne Chrisman-Khawam, a physician and professor at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, called the care alliance snake oil salesmen, according to the Capital Journal. She cited several problems in the groups published research.

Based on evidence-based medicine and my read on this large number of small studies, I would find this very suspect, even the positive outcomes, she told the Ohio Capital Journal.

An update on Smiths new treatment has not been revealed by the hospital or Wagshul due to privacy laws, the paper reported.

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