Florida woman who sued for ivermectin dies from COVID

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla — A Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 has died aft her hubby unsuccessfully sued to unit doctors to dainty her with ivermectin, a cause fashionable among immoderate sceptics of accepted coronavirus treatments contempt a deficiency of studies proving its effectiveness.

Tamara Drock died Friday, 12 weeks aft being admitted to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Ryan Drock told the Palm Beach Post.

He sued the infirmary past period successful an effort to necessitate doctors to administer ivermectin, a cause utilized to dainty conditions caused by parasitic worms. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the cause to dainty COVID-19, saying it hasn’t proved effectual successful pre-clinical trials.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge James Nutt rejected Drock’s suit past month, saying allowing judges to countermand doctor’s decisions could acceptable a unsafe precedent.

He urged the Drocks and the infirmary to effort to scope statement connected their own. A woody fell isolated aft a doc agreed to administer ivermectin astatine a dosage the family’s lawyer said was excessively low, the paper reported.

Tenet Healthcare, which owns the hospital, did not respond to messages seeking comment, the insubstantial reported.

Ryan Drock, who besides was infected but recovered from COVID, told the Post he’s not giving up.

“I’m hoping they sanction a instrumentality aft her truthful nary 1 has to spell done this,” Drock said. “If she had walked retired of the infirmary she could person had the medication.”