Texas hospital system bans ivermectin
for COVID patients as their families
demand 'wonder drug'
Just the News,
by
Greg Piper
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
9/11/2021 11:00:18 PM
A Texas hospital system imposed "new restriction criteria" on the use of ivermectin, excluding the anti-parasitic agent from treatment of COVID-19.
St. Luke's Health will only allow its infectious disease physicians to use the drug for preventive treatment of strongyloidiasis, a roundworm infection, according to a Sept. 2 directive shared with Just the News.
Its wording suggests that non-infectious disease physicians had been considering or actually prescribing ivermectin for COVID patients.
The relatively cheap treatment has been promoted by an eclectic group of influencers. Evolutionary biologist and former Evergreen State College professor Bret Weinstein has regularly touted ivermectin on his DarkHorse podcast, which led YouTube to demonetize his channel.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
slipstik 9/11/2021 11:14:44 PM (No. 911573)
It will be interesting to see if Abbot crawls up somebody's exhaust pipe about this. All you have to do is look at the Indian provinces and Africa where ivermectin is in full use. There ain't any covid! Our government is responsible for this and I hope I live long enough to see some people, actually a lot of people, convicted for a range of mass crimes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 9/11/2021 11:19:03 PM (No. 911576)
I would certainly take my loved one to another hospital. A friend's daughter passed away because she was misdiagnosed at a small hospital. I have no idea if this place is small or not. What is wrong with these doctors?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/11/2021 11:33:14 PM (No. 911589)
From what I understand, when you have to be hospitalized, it is really too late for early treatment ivermectin.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 9/11/2021 11:34:35 PM (No. 911590)
I called them and I wrote (emailed) them. Not the correct decision on their part. Maybe a wrongful death law suit in the making.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/11/2021 11:40:18 PM (No. 911596)
Probably triggered by the Ohio case where the wife got a court order that required the hospital to give her husband ivermectin. (Ironically, the patient’s wife ended up changing her mind.) If you read the article you’ll find out more details. May not be an outright ban. May not have been prescribed by any doctor so far. Worth a read.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/11/2021 11:46:13 PM (No. 911605)
Joe Rogan says that he tested positive on a Sunday and was feeling pretty good by monday. He had treatment the rest of us just wish we could afford.
He also said the Japanese Medical Association recommended it.
AND that the provisional use of the vaccine is based on there being no treatment for the disease.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OK state mom 9/11/2021 11:50:07 PM (No. 911607)
My cousin was diagnosed with Covid 2 months ago and discharged out of the Nocona,TX hospital with Ivermectin and 3 vitamins. She returned 24 hours in a worsening condition, admitted and kept on the Ivermevtin, 3 vitamins, melatonin, Lovenox, and Remdisavir. No need for an internist, virologist to prescribe.
Monday I begin my hunt for prophylactic Ivermectin. My pharmacist has encouraged me to do so.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mofongo 9/11/2021 11:50:16 PM (No. 911608)
Paging Dr. Mengele, Dr. Joseph Mengele. He must be in this hospital somewhere giving orders.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? Doesn’t Abbott get a say? Costello maybe?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 9/11/2021 11:59:10 PM (No. 911614)
They say "...warns against self-medication with the animal version of ivermectin, which is stronger than the human version."
Look, you obnoxious, self important horse's hind ends, there are plenty of us "poor fools" out here who are actually capable of doing the math to get a proper human dose of ivermectin from a horse dose of the gel.
We are not all ignorant children for you superior brains to take care of, especially when you are LYING to us, and literally KILLING people with your either incompetent lack of looking fairly at the data, or corrupt willingness to kill people to improve Pfizer's profits.
Damn these evil docs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ALynnMcW 9/12/2021 12:34:55 AM (No. 911627)
Drugs can certainly be repurposed. Thalidomide which caused grave birth defects back in the 50’s is used to treat leprosy and Multiple Myeloma. I know because it put mine in remission. But my hematologist thinks I’m crazy for asking about Ivermectin. It’s all politics. Everyone is involved. We are on our on I’m afraid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/12/2021 1:08:35 AM (No. 911641)
I think we need to get back to doctors and patients deciding their treatment, rather than hospital systems and politicians. Else, we don't really need doctors, do we?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TXknitter 9/12/2021 2:10:55 AM (No. 911651)
Where medicine is concerned, the hospital systems are on the Federal nipple whether a red or blue state. They will do what the Feds say even if they lose employees and locals get mad at them.
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We are on our own folks! The medical community has chosen their god, (the CDC) and their bible, (the CDC protocol) over the best interest of the patients.
Between Methodist firing their employees for refusing the vaccine and now this, the best medical care in the south is no longer in the Houston medical center.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/12/2021 3:58:02 AM (No. 911676)
They exchanged their Hippocratic Oath for a Hypociritic Oath.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LaVallette 9/12/2021 5:49:46 AM (No. 911698)
The issue is simple: Ivermectin now has been widely prescribed and used by medical officers and doctors in the field and on actual Covid patients. In countries where the vaccines are not widely available. or not at, all it has been the only treatment available. Reports claim that the Delta outbreak which was expected to devastate and decimate (i.e. a 140 million deaths prediction) has been brought under reasonable control (death rate 2/3's that of the USA despite four times the population) by the widespread use of the cheap off the shelf immediately available ivermectin. The Question is therefore "HAS IT WORKED OR NOT?" and if it has, why the the universal obsession by the Medical Authorities, especially in the "developed West" to malign it in order to maintain their (Experimental) Vaccines ONLY Regines? As the lawyers would say "CUI BONO?" For whose benefit?.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/12/2021 7:52:00 AM (No. 911763)
Decisions of this type should be between the physician and patient only. The hospital is going beyond its ethical bounds.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
curious1 9/12/2021 10:18:20 AM (No. 911901)
It's not like there aren't properly designed studies showing its efficacy. Including years ago for other SARs viruses.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GO3 9/12/2021 10:31:01 AM (No. 911911)
Abbott should have crawled up the exhaust pipe of his Director of HHS a long time ago. Had a coworker get symptomatic Covid and was treated with Ivermectin and returned to work with no problems. Another poster is right. The medical institutions are systemically tied to federal and state dollars. What a web we have weaved.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/12/2021 6:48:10 PM (No. 912359)
Whatever happened to that "Right to Try" law that was signed by President Trump???
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Nothing "medical" about this decision. It is purely political. Follow the money!!