Washington, United States.
A court of United States order a hospital from Ohio deal with the pesticide ivermectin to patient with VOCd, following a lawsuit filed by the wife of the patient.
This is another case in which the courts of the country side with the litigants who looking to use drugs, despite the scarcity evidence of its effectiveness against the coronavirus.
Judge Gregory Howard ordered West Chester Hospital, located on the outskirts of Cincinnati, to treat patient Jeffrey Smith with ivermectin, according to an order filed Aug. 23.
Julie Smith – wife of the patient represented by the lawyer Ralph Lorigo– had received a prescription from the Dr. Fred Wagshul, which appears on the website of a group called “Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance “advocating the use of pesticide.
the ivermectin attracted much attention after the first studies of laboratories suggested that it could have beneficial properties for fight the coronavirus, Although the tests performed so far have not yielded conclusive results.
The World Health Organization (WHO) And the European and American health authorities advise against its use against it coronavirus.
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The National Institutes of Health of United States they say there is not enough evidence “neither for nor against the use of ivermectin for covid-19 “treatment until clear results are obtained in rigorous trials.
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that by mid-August, doctors were awarding more than 88,000 recipes of the drug per week, well above the prepandemic level of 3,600.
Poison control centers, meanwhile, recorded three times as many overdose calls ivermectin.