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(Tom: Words fail me when the people we entrust with our health are so bloody minded as to refuse to administer life saving treatments and lie to preserve the narrative. It is beyond comprehension that those who swear to do no harm would let a person die before they would give him what would save his life.)<\/p>\n
Sun Ng, a retired contractor from Hong Kong, traveled to Illinois to celebrate his only granddaughter\u2019s first birthday. He got covid and was near death in a Chicago-area hospital. All other options were exhausted, but the hospital refused to give Mr. Ng a generic, FDA-approved drug with an extraordinary safety record that a doctor believed could safe his life.<\/p>\n
Finally, a judge asked the right question about ivermectin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the downside?\u201d<\/p>\n
Put another way: If a man is dying of covid in an ICU and all else has been tried, why not order a hospital to give a safe, last-ditch drug?<\/p>\n
Edward Hospital, located near Chicago, offered three arguments as to why Sun Ng, seventy-one, should not be given ivermectin:<\/p>\n
On each argument, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Paul Fullerton firmly disagreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t think of a more extraordinary situation than when we are talking about a man\u2019s life,\u201d he said in a November 5 decision that is a model of rational decision-making in an irrational era.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not forcing this hospital to do anything other than to step aside,\u201d he continued in a Zoom hearing. \u201cI am just asking\u2014or not asking\u2014I am ordering through the Court\u2019s power to allow Dr. Bain to have the emergency privileges and administer this medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hospital ultimately stepped aside. Dr. Alan Bain, an internist, administered a five-day course of 24 milligrams of ivermectin, from November 8 through November 12.<\/p>\n