Ohio judge orders hospital to give controversial ivermectin to Covid patient despite FDA and CDC warning against it

A JUDGE has ordered a hospital to give a Covid patient the controversial drug ivermectin despite warnings from the FDA and CDC.

Jeffrey Smith is currently on a ventilator at West Chester Hospital, , , and has been given his chances of survival as less than 30 per cent, according to court documents.

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The Ohio judge made the ruling after his wife Julie filed a lawsuit to make it happen.

She had asked the hospital to give her husband the drug , which is commonly used as an animal dewormer on August 19 after she had consulted Dr Fred Wagshul.

“It was her wish to give him a trial of it, knowing he was in the hospital for God knows how many days. We've had six cases nationally where people were intubated on ventilators, six different states, and went home after taking it and no one can explain it," Dr Wagshul said.

Wagshul is a founding member of the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, which claims ivermectin is a safe and important drug in the treatment and prevention of the , despite health officials strongly disagreeing with this.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President has said previously: “Don't do it. There is no evidence whatsoever that that works, and it could potentially have toxicity… with people who have gone to poison control centers because they've taken the drug at a ridiculous dose and wind up getting sick.

“There is no clinical evidence that indicates that this works.”

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also on August 23.

"You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it," the administration wrote on Twitter, with a link to a story about why not to take ivermectin.

"The best protection we have against Covid-19 is the vaccine," Dr Vivek Murthy said on CNN.

"If you get Covid-19, we actually do have treatments that work. Ivermectin is not one of them."

The FDA's warning said that ivermectin is approved for "treatment of certain internal and external parasites in various animal species."

It added that "people should never take animal drugs [as] using these products in humans could cause serious harm."

The administration listed several possible side effects from the drugs, including rash, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, swelling, neurological events, drop in blood pressure, and liver injury.

At least one person has been hospitalized, in , for ingesting the drug.

Despite the warnings, Butler County Common Pleas Court Judge Gregory Howard ruled that the hospital must treat Smith with the 30 milligrams of the drug for three weeks.

Wagshul said he believes Smith is on Day 7.

"Hospitals follow FDA and CDC guidelines, have never used ivermectin and have no experience with ivermectin and if not for a court order would not be using ivermectin; it's that simple," said Dr Wagshul.

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