If these guys trust Ivermectin and their Facebook MDs more than actual hospitals with real life doctors and nurses, one wonders why they are even taking up a bed in the ICU? Why don't they just treat themselves at home? There are people waiting for a bed in Michigan who actually got sick legitimately and not because they refused a life saving vaccine.
Wonko and Mollusk hit the core points. We've had more than a few people who scoffed at the vaccine...until they were struggling to breath and begged for it, for anything, to help them.
I suspect it may be a result of the hospital/doctors doing their friggin' job and keeping the guy alive. Once he's in, and on a ventilator, could this woman have even had him discharged and brought home?
He got diagnosed on Nov 10, and didn't get the first dose of Ivermectin until Dec. 5. She said that the hospital had "played nasty, vile, wicked games for two days and delayed further." She was even going to go as far as sneaking in the Ivermectin, in a sterilized Rubbermaid cup, to give to him before the court ruled.
Honestly, it looks to me like the hospital was doing all it could to keep the guy alive, in spite of his wife's efforts.
The only way to have "brought him home" would be to put him on Hospice care...which is a touchy subject with the kind of infection COVID is. Not that this woman seems like she'd be the kind of person to even consider that. Ventilation is very much an emergency intervention, but there are long term solutions...which aren't something that is likely to be considered given the nature of COVID.
In fairness, Ivermectin HAS shown to have an impact on COVID...at the earliest stages of the infection. The time to get it would have been back on November 10th...not a month later and on the vent. By the time they hit the ventilation stage...practically the only thing we can do is to support them as much as we can and HOPE they survive the virus's progression. There ARE options and treatments for early stage COVID infections (monoclonal antibody treatments being a big one), but my gut says they probably "put things off" until the husband reached a point where ventilation was a necessity
And again, at that stage, there really isn't much to do aside from supportive care as the virus is basically too rampant and the body too weakened by that point.
Of course, if they had gotten a vaccine, it's highly likely that he would not have gotten that sick to begin with.
Legally, the hospital really can't do much about the bullshit people who deny the vaccine (and other treatments) and then end up on the vent. Medical ethics, laws and all that garbage. I can guarantee there are more than a few of us in healthcare that would have ZERO problem kicking some of these people home on a tank of oxygen and saying "good luck asshole".
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