In another case, friends and supporters of Veronica Wolski, besieged Chicago's Amita Health Resurrection Medical Center with hundreds of calls and emails demanding that Wolski, who was hospitalized with COVID-related pneumonia, be given IVM. The hospital said it did not use IVM to treat COVID, and Wolsk soon died.
In another DuPage case, court documents show a winding road that led Leslie Pai, a 68-year-old photographer, to Advocate Condell's intensive care unit. According to the lawsuit, Pai entered NorthShore Glenbrook Hospital with COVID- on Aug. 31. She was already taking IVM as a preventive measure and brought some to the hospital, but according to the complaint, officials there threw it out, saying it was not allowed in the facility. The staff at NorthShore Glenbrook wouldn't budge in their opposition to IVM, the complaint said, so on Sept. 11 Tiffany Wilson had her mother transferred to Advocate Condell, where she was placed on a ventilator and put into a medical coma. Advocate Condell doctors weren't willing to give her IVM, either, so Wilson filed suit in DuPage County, home of the hospital's parent company. Hayes granted a temporary injunction allowing an outside physician, Dr. Alan Bain, to give her the drug. But things did not go well because hospital doctors said Pai had harmful effects from IVM.
The hospital's lawyers said Pai had received a "mega dose" of the drug, but Jon Minear, one of Pai's attorneys, said doctors misunderstood the dosage Bain prescribed. He added that her medical records indicated that her condition had improved. The daughter Wilson in an affidavit said her research into IVM led her to believe its risks are "infinitesimally small," and that it offers her mother an excellent chance at a full recovery. The hospital maintained its opposition and the legal battle continued.
Kentucky case
A judge denied a request to force doctors at a Louisville hospital to treat a COVID patient with IVM. Angela Underwood filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court to compel doctors at Norton Brownsboro Hospital to give her husband, Lonnie IVM; she represented herself in the case. "As a Registered Nurse, I demand my husband be administered ivermectin whether by a Norton physician or another health care provider of my choosing including myself if necessary," Underwood wrote in her complaint, which was later amended to request her husband be treated with "intravenous vitamin c." Jefferson Circuit Judge Charles Cunningham wrote in a ruling that the court "cannot require a hospital to literally take orders from someone who does not routinely issue such orders." Cunningham wrote that Underwood could try to find a hospital that "believes in the efficacy of these therapies." "This is impractical because it is likely that no such hospital in the United States, or certainly in this region, agrees with Plaintiff," Cunningham wrote. "Moreover, her husband's medical circumstances may make such a transfer unjustifiably risky. Interestingly, initially, Circuit Court Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman did order the hospital to treat Underwood with IVM "if medically indicated and ordered by an appropriate physician," and that judge granted "emergency injunction to administer intravenous Vitamin C." But Cunningham stepped in as judge at some point.
Ohio case
An Ohio judge ruled that a local hospital cannot be compelled to give IVM to a COVID patient. Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Oster Jr. issued the ruling as a 14-day temporary injunction granted by a different judge expired. Julie Smith asked for an emergency order for the use of IVM for her husband Jeffrey Smith, 51. He was in the intensive care unit of a Butler County hospital for weeks. Initially, Judge Gregory Howard gave the go-ahead to Dr. Fred Wagshul's prescription of 30 milligrams of IVM daily for three weeks, as requested by his wife.
The second judge wrote that Smith and her lawyers did not overcome the high burden needed to maintain the injunction. Oster said there was no clear evidence that IVM is effective against COVID-presented in court and that he must also consider the rights of the hospital and the impact that forcing a hospital to give a drug could have. "The FDA, CDC, AMA and APhAA and the doctors of West Chester Hospital do not believe that ivermectin should be used to treat COVID-19," Oster wrote. He said that Jeffrey Smith could be moved to another hospital where the drug could be administered. Kelly Martin, spokeswoman for UC Health which operates West Chester Hospital, said "We do not believe that hospitals or clinicians should be ordered to administer medications and/or therapies, especially unproven medications and/or therapies, against medical advice."
Texas case with overturned trial court decision
This is one of the disturbing cases. A three-judge appellate panel overturned a trial court injunction requiring a Fort Worth hospital to allow a dying patient to be treated with IVM. Obviously, the hospital worked to overturn the lower court decision.
The case involved Jason Jones, 48, a Fort Worth-area police officer who was hospitalized with COVID in late September and refused conventional treatments, including the antiviral drug remdesivir. He had spent about six weeks hospitalized, was in an ICU, on a ventilator and in an induced coma. His wife had found Mary Talley Bowden, a Texas physician who had prescribed IVM. The doctor testified that "this man is dying.' The trial judge instructed Bowden to apply for temporary privileges at Huguley, and ordered Huguley to grant them. The hospital appealed. So, after the higher court ruling, Jones stayed on his death bed.
Kansas case
"A Kansas man's family is suing a Johnson County hospital and asks for a court to issue an emergency order that would allow his personal doctor to give him a controversial medication to treat COVID-19. Deke Belden, 41, was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was taking Ivermectin with several other drugs in November to treat the illness. The lawsuit says his personal physician in Olathe prescribed the treatment.
On Nov. 27, Belden was admitted to Olathe Medical Center, suffering from pneumonia related to COVID-19. The lawsuit says Belden asked to continue receiving the Ivermectin treatment while in the hospital, but doctors and nurses at the hospital denied his request.
The filing shows Belden's parents brought doses of Ivermectin to his room, but hospital staff wouldn't allow them to give it to their son. Belden's family said his condition has gotten worse since he quit taking the medication, and he was sedated at the time.
