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AZProgressive

(29,322 posts)
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 09:57 PM Dec 2021

Hospitals refused to give patients Ivermectin. Lockdowns and political pressure followed

HELENA, Mont. — One Montana hospital went into lockdown and called police after a woman threatened violence because her relative was denied her request to be treated with ivermectin.

Officials of another Montana hospital accused public officials of threatening and harassing their health care workers for refusing to treat a politically connected COVID-19 patient with that antiparasitic drug or hydroxychloroquine, another drug unauthorized by the Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID.

And in neighboring Idaho, a medical resident said police had to be called to a hospital after a COVID patient’s relative verbally abused her and threatened physical violence because she would not prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, “drugs that are not beneficial in the treatment of COVID-19,” she wrote.

These three conflicts, which occurred from September to November, underline the pressure on health care workers to provide unauthorized COVID treatments, particularly in parts of the country where vaccination rates are low, government skepticism is high, and conservative leaders have championed the treatments.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/hospitals-refused-to-give-patients-ivermectin-lockdowns-and-political-pressure-followed

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Hospitals refused to give patients Ivermectin. Lockdowns and political pressure followed (Original Post) AZProgressive Dec 2021 OP
Stay home and take it. Texaswitchy Dec 2021 #1
Amazing. They want the full support of modern medicine but want it to administer useless snake oil. Girard442 Dec 2021 #2
Don't give them ideas MustLoveBeagles Dec 2021 #5
Magic dirt. Texaswitchy Dec 2021 #6
Don't forget the leeches. Angleae Dec 2021 #7
Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wante keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #3
Then why are they being allowed in hospitals? tenderfoot Dec 2021 #4
They should go to "Theodoric of York" instead ThoughtCriminal Dec 2021 #8

Girard442

(6,081 posts)
2. Amazing. They want the full support of modern medicine but want it to administer useless snake oil.
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 10:06 PM
Dec 2021

What's next? Arsenic, strychnine and bloodletting?

keithbvadu2

(36,852 posts)
3. Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wante
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 10:09 PM
Dec 2021

Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wanted?

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