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Dying COVID-19 Patient Recovers After Court Orders Hospital to Administer Ivermectin
[Your News] After an Illinois hospital insisted on administering expensive remdesivir to an elderly COVID-19 patient and it failed to work, the dying man’s life was saved after a court ordered that an outside medical doctor be allowed to use the inexpensive drug ivermectin to treat him over the hospital’s strenuous objections, according to the family’s lawyer.Ivermectin tablets are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat humans with intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis, two conditions caused by parasitic worms. Some topical forms of ivermectin are approved to treat external parasites like head lice and for skin conditions such as rosacea. The drug is also approved for use on animals. The costly drug remdesivir has been given emergency use authorization by the FDA for treating certain categories of human patients hospitalized with COVID-19. But use of ivermectin to treat humans suffering from COVID-19 has become controversial because the FDA has not approved its so-called off-label use to treat that disease, which is caused by the CCP virus also known as SARS-CoV-2. Critics have long accused the FDA of dragging its heels and being dangerously over-cautious and indifferent to human suffering in its approach to regulating pharmaceuticals, a perception that led to then-President Donald Trump signing the Right to Try Act in May 2018. The law, according to the FDA, "is another way for patients who have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases or conditions who have tried all approved treatment options and who are unable to participate in a clinical trial to access certain unapproved treatments." Medical doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in people even though the FDA claims its off-label use could be harmful in some circumstances. Clinical human trials of the drug for use against the disease are currently in progress, the agency says. Posted by: Besoeker 2021-12-02 |
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