Hospital yields to court order, permits use of lifesaving ivermectin on COVID patient
BY Herschel Smith
3 years ago
A Virginia hospital has yielded to a court order and allowed ivermectin to be given to a patient infected with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). The medical facility permitted the use of the anti-parasitic drug after a judge threatened fines of $10,000 per day.
The move was a victory for the family of Kathy Davies, who has been receiving COVID-19 treatment for several months at Fauquier Health in Warrenton, Virginia. Her husband and son launched a legal battle against the hospital earlier in December 2021 to allow the use of ivermectin on her.
Davies’ family decided to take action after the hospital’s standard protocols – which included placing her on a ventilator – did not improve her condition. An anonymous friend of the family said Fauquier Health had also been giving her remdesivir, which is said to increase the risk of causing the liver and kidneys to fail.
The Davies family explored the possibility of ivermectin following the initial recommendation of family physician Dr. Martha Maturi. However, Fauquier Health rejected the proposal – leading to Davies’ relatives taking legal action. A back-and-forth legal battle between the hospital and the family led to an initial Dec. 9 court ruling that ordered the use of ivermectin, which the hospital refused to obey.
A later judgment on Dec. 13 from Circuit Court Judge James P. Fisher found that Fauquier Health was in contempt of court for refusing to allow ivermectin for Davies. According to the Daily Wire, the judge gave the hospital three choices: comply, appeal the court order or face the $10,000 per day fine. The fines would be retroactively imposed beginning Dec. 9.
Fauquier Health finally complied with the court order on Dec. 13, permitting Maturi to administer ivermectin to Davies after 41 days on a ventilator. She received her first dose on the same day and is set to continue treatment using the drug.
“Kathy just started on her ivermectin last night, and that’s by the power of prayer,” the family friend told LifeSiteNews in a Dec. 14 phone interview. (Related: UPDATE: Husband & father dies after being denied ivermectin by hospital.)
In his Dec. 13 ruling, Fisher argued that Fauquier Health had inadequate reasons to block the ivermectin treatment. He also pointed out that the hospital did not bother to conduct “an analysis of the merits of ivermectin as a treatment protocol.” Thus, Fisher concluded that the hospital would need to make “all reasonable effort” to facilitate the treatment Davies’ family seeks.
In a Dec. 15 statement, Fauquier Health said Maturi did not have privileges to practice at the hospital. It added that they could not allow her a physician who is not a staff member to administer medication as it would “violate standard practice and Virginia law.”
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Kory subsequently tweeted: “[I] just heard the hospital [administrators] were freaking out trying to get [a registered nurse] to give ivermectin by 9 p.m. Nothing like $50,000 and a PR nightmare facing you, versus just another COVID patient dying from a care standard set by profits and supported by the craven, or ignorant complicity of most medical doctors.”
Wow. Brave actions by the medical staff indeed. Perhaps they can crawl on hands and knees to Fauci’s home and beg his forgiveness for administering something that is tolerated well, not dangerous, and has a much better chance of success than his Remdesivir (which destroys the liver and kidneys). Maybe high priest Fauci can absolve them of their sins by virtue of the fact that they were forced to do this.
On December 20, 2021 at 12:18 am, William said:
I work in a hospital and have had experience with hospital administrators and hospital chief medical officers.
Hospital administrators are both cowardly and tyrannical at the same time, pushing around and threatening medical staff who cross them while at the same time being cowards who are terrified of the hospital board who can dismiss them at a moment’s notice.
The board won’t tolerate negative financials and the hospital CEO will bend to the financial will of the board, with the patients’ interests always coming in second place, despite all the hospital’s advertising and sloganeering about how they care for and serve the community.
The Boards are in turn cowards in their own right, being terrified of crossing the federal government, who set the rules and pay a substantial portion of the bills, and boards are largely populated with medical know-nothings and dabblers who have never made principled stands in their collective lives.
The chief medical officer is typically a coward who cannot think for himself but defers robotically to the CDC, FDA and NIH. The appropriate analogy for these types is that they are terrified of being out of step with the prevailing medical narratives and of being hammered by the administration and board back into line.
These folks are all algorithmic, formulaic dunces who have gotten to their stations, not by being outspoken, courageous, or freely thinking, but by being yes-men and cowardly drones who wilt at the slightest adversity.
This is where we are. I would advise the reader to be well-versed on and prepared for treat-at-home covid therapies. Get your ivermectin well in advance and keep it at your close hand. Speaking for myself only, should I get covid, I will refuse to be treated at any hospital, knowing what I know. Should I crash and burn despite my own best at-home efforts, I’m absolutely unafraid of death and would greatly prefer passing at home surrounded by my family than expiring, isolated from family, from officially-sanctioned malpractice in a hospital.
On December 20, 2021 at 12:40 pm, Papa said:
A hospital having to yield to a court order, in order for a simple saving to be given?
That hospital, and others, are greedy and medical tyrants.