A judge in Ohio has ordered a local hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with Ivermectin despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC and medical professionals.
According to ABC affiliate WCPO, Judge Gregory Howard ordered staff at West Chester Hospital treating COVID patient Jeffrey Smith, 51, to give him 30mg of Ivermectin for three weeks.
Julie Smith, Jeffrey Smith’s wife brought the case to court after her husband was placed on a ventilator after spending 19 days in the hospital. Smith asked West Chester’s Dr. Fred Wagshul to prescribe her husband the drug treatment, but other staffers at the hospital refused to administer the prescription, according to WCPO.
The lawsuit identifies Dr. Wagshul as “one of the foremost experts on using Ivermectin in treating COVID-19.”
Dr. Wagshul told the Ohio Capital-Journal in an interview that the science behind Ivermectin’s use in COVID-19 patients is “irrefutable.” He said the CDC and FDA are engaged in a “conspiracy,” to block its use to protect the FDA’s emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccines. Wagshul also accused the media and social media companies of censoring the merits of Ivermectin, and claimed the government’s refusal to acknowledge its benefits amounts to genocide.
“If we were a country looking at another country allowing those [COVID-19] deaths daily … we would have been screaming, ‘Genocide!’” he said.
Ivermectin is a drug commonly used to deworm livestock, though it has been authorized by the FDA to treat parasitic worm infections in humans like intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis.
The drug has become the latest alternative to widely available vaccines as a number of prominent right–wing figures, including Fox News hosts touted Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID, citing debunked studies.
The FDA was forced to issue a statement advising against the use of Ivermectin in humans to treat COVID as some Americans began sucking down tubes of horse paste.
“Animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more,” the FDA said. “Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans.”
