Lawsuits demand unproven ivermectin for COVID patients

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NEW YORK (AP) — Mask rules, vaccination mandates and business shutdowns have all landed in the courts during the COVID-19 outbreak, confronting judges with questions of science and government authority. Now they are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug ivermectin.

At least two dozen lawsuits have been filed around the U.S., many in recent weeks, by people seeking to force hospitals to give their COVID-stricken loved ones ivermectin, a drug for parasites that has been promoted by conservative commentators as a treatment despite a lack of conclusive evidence that it helps people with the virus.

Interest in the drug started rising toward the end of last year and the beginning of this one, when studies — some later withdrawn, in other countries — seemed to suggest ivermectin had some potential and it became a hot topic of conversation among conservatives on social media.

The lawsuits, several of them filed by the same western New York lawyer, cover similar ground. The families have gotten prescriptions for ivermectin, but hospitals have refused to use it on their loved ones, who are often on ventilators and facing death.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawsuits-demand-unproven-ivermectin-covid-134103606.html

[2naSalit]

1. I would imagine that the hospitals have...

Policies that forbid the use of meds (?) prescribed by Drs. who probably don't have anything to do with that hospital for one thing.

If you hope that people who demand such treatment that the hospital can't condone would be discharged so they can get the treatment they desire.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Mask mandates are bad while ivermectin mandates are good?

Mask mandates are bad while ivermectin mandates are good?

If you actually love your loved one, take him/her to a doctor who will treat them as you want.

[Claire Oh Nette]

3. FFS...

Throw this shit out of court, and those patients out of the ICU.

I don't show up in the ER in active V-Fib and tell the assembled medical team how to treat me with drugs my family got at the feed store. Neither does anyone's cousin who goes in for Pneumonia or cancer or any other MEDICAL PROBLEM.

It's poisonous politics against the GQP's own voters.

TFG, DeSantis, Abbott and others who have tried to legislate a rub some dirt on it and get back in there attitude for other people's children and families are criminally negligent.