Pennsylvania COVID-19 Patient Fights for Access to Ivermectin

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YORK, Pennsylvaniaโ€”Keith Smith received the first of three doses of ivermectin Monday, while being treated for COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at UPMC Memorial Hospital; the York, Pennsylvania hospital objected to the treatment, but Keithโ€™s wife Darla Smith got a court order to allow it.

โ€œIvermectin has been prescribed for human use for 35 years and has been used over 4 billion times around the globe,โ€ Buffalo, New York attorney Ralph Lorigo, who handled the Smith case, told The Epoch Times. โ€œIt is an essential drug. The CDC recommends every refugee that comes into the country take ivermectin. That shows how safe it is.โ€

Ivermectin is approved for the treatment of parasitic diseases but has been successful in treating COVID-19 patients, although COVID-19 treatment is considered off-label use. It is legal for doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label uses.

Since his first ivermectin case in January, in which an 80-year-old woman went from near death and on a ventilator, to celebrating her 81st birthday healthy and at home, Lorigo has taken on over 100 cases of patientsโ€™ families fighting with hospitals over the right to try ivermectin.

โ€œThings are so bad that I had 37 inquiries over the weekend from people desperately seeking treatment for a loved one in the hospital, who is in terrible shape. The hospital has done its protocol, and it didnโ€™t work.โ€

Often the protocol is another drug, Remdesivir, and if the patientโ€™s health declines, being intubatedโ€”that is, put on a ventilator.

โ€œWhen you are placed on a ventilator, it means they have done their protocol and now it is wait-and-see. Your chances of getting better once on a ventilator diminish substantially,โ€ Lorigo said. โ€œAt the beginning of COVID, if you went on the ventilator, you had an 80โ€“90 percent chance of not surviving. Itโ€™s better now, but being on a ventilator can harm lungs. As you stay on that ventilator, your chances of survival diminish.โ€

Byย Beth Brelje

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