–Dying COVID-19 Patient Recovers
By: Matthew Vadum, EPOCH TIMES December 1, 2021:
An elderly COVID-19 patient has recovered after a court order allowed him to be treated with ivermectin, despite objections from the hospital in which he was staying, according to the family’s attorney.
After an Illinois hospital insisted on administering expensive remdesivir to the patient and the treatment failed, his life was saved after a court ordered that an outside medical doctor be allowed to use the inexpensive ivermectin to treat him, over the hospital’s strenuous objections.
Ivermectin tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat humans with intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis, two conditions caused by parasitic worms. Some topical forms of ivermectin have been approved to treat external parasites such as head lice and for skin conditions such as rosacea. The drug is also approved for use on animals.
Remdesivir has been given emergency use authorization by the FDA for treating certain categories of human patients that have been hospitalized with COVID-19. But the use of ivermectin to treat humans suffering from COVID-19 has become controversial because the FDA hasn’t approved its so-called off-label use to treat the disease, which is caused by the CCP virus also known as SARS-CoV-2.
Critics have long accused the FDA of dragging its heels and being dangerously over-cautious and indifferent to human suffering in its approach to regulating pharmaceuticals, a criticism that led to then-President Donald Trump signing the Right to Try Act in May 2018. The law, according to the FDA, “is another way for patients who have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases or conditions who have tried all approved treatment options and who are unable to participate in a clinical trial to access certain unapproved treatments.”
Medical doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19, even though the FDA claims that its off-label use could be harmful in some circumstances. Clinical human trials of the drug for use against COVID-19 are currently in progress, according to the agency.
The drug “most definitely” saved the elderly patient’s life “because his condition changed right immediately after he took ivermectin,” attorney for the family, Kirstin M. Erickson of Chicago-based Mauck and Baker, told The Epoch Times.
Sun Ng, 71, who was visiting the United States from Hong Kong to celebrate his granddaughter’s first birthday, became ill with COVID-19 and within days was close to death. He was hospitalized on Oct. 14 at Edward Hospital, in Naperville, Illinois, a part of the Edward-Elmhurst Health system. His condition worsened dramatically and he was intubated and placed on a ventilator a few days later.
Ng’s only child, Man Kwan Ng, who holds a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering, did her own research and decided that her father should take ivermectin, which some medical doctors believe is effective against COVID-19, despite the FDA’s guidance to the contrary.
But against the daughter’s wishes, the hospital refused to administer ivermectin and denied access to a physician willing to administer it.
The daughter went to court on her father’s behalf and on Nov. 1, Judge Paul M. Fullerton of the Circuit Court of DuPage County granted a temporary restraining order requiring the hospital to allow ivermectin to be given to the patient. The hospital refused to comply with the court order.
At a subsequent court hearing on Nov. 5, Fullerton said one physician who testified described Sun Ng as “basically on his death bed,” with a mere 10 to 15 percent chance of survival. Ivermectin can have minor side effects such as dizziness, itchy skin, and diarrhea at the dosage suggested for Ng, but the “risks of these side effects are so minimal that Mr. Ng’s current situation outweighs that risk by one-hundredfold,” Fullerton said.
The judge issued a preliminary injunction that day directing the hospital to “immediately allow … temporary emergency privileges” to Ng’s physician, Dr. Alan Bain, “solely to administer Ivermectin to this patient.”
The hospital resisted the order on Nov. 6 and 7, denying Bain access to his patient. The hospital claimed that it couldn’t let Bain in because he wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 and that its chief medical officer wasn’t available to “proctor” Bain administering ivermectin.
The daughter’s attorneys filed an emergency report with the court on Nov. 8 and Fullerton heard from both sides. The judge admonished the hospital and restated that it must allow Bain inside over a period of 15 days to do his job. When the hospital filed a motion to stay the order, Fullerton denied it, again directing the facility to comply.
The ivermectin appears to have worked, and Sun Ng has recovered from COVID-19. He was discharged by the hospital on Nov. 27.
“My father’s recovery is amazing,” his daughter, Man Kwan Ng, said in a statement.
“My father is a tough man. He was working so hard to survive, and of course, with God’s holding hands. He weaned off oxygen about three days after moving out of the ICU. He started oral feeding before hospital discharge. He returned home without carrying a bottle of oxygen and a feeding tube installed to his stomach. He can now stand with a walker at the bedside and practice stepping. After being sedated for a month on a ventilator in ICU, his performance is beyond our expectations. Praise the Lord.”
Attorney Erickson said the “happy” end result here provides “hope for the nation.”
“We get calls from all over the place,” she told The Epoch Times. “People that want to sue hospitals after someone’s passed, they wanted to get the medicine and couldn’t. Obviously, that’s a different, difficult case because a medical malpractice case is very difficult.”
People just want to do what’s best for their family members and “find ivermectin themselves” and have it on hand “and use it when someone starts to develop symptoms,” Erickson said.
She said her legal team and client were “really thankful” that Ng recovered and “we salute” Judge Fullerton, Dr. Bain, and others, as well as the hospital for abiding by the court order in the end.
For more information on ivermectin and how to obtain it, Erickson said people should visit the website of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance at Covid19CriticalCare.com.
Keith Hartenberger, system director for public relations for Edward-Elmhurst Health, declined to comment.
“We’re not able to comment due to patient privacy guidelines,” he told The Epoch Times by email.
@Jerzed
The sad reality is that the hospital staff will likely have no concerns of any lawsuit in the state of Illinois. The state of Illinois has a medical liability waiver provided for healthcare workers except for willful intent of wrong doing(malice) or gross negligence. Beyond the issue of the waiver, though, if there is a suit brought against the hospital, the hospital will attempt to move the case to federal court where it will be summarily dismissed under the protections provided by the PREP Act. More recently, these cases being carried to the Federal districts have been sent back towards state courts for litigation, which should be the proper venue for the cases, in any event. The state venues have immunity protections in place in 30 states, including Illinois, based on extensions of the PREP Act to the state level or via state legislation or via state executive orders. This will all be reliant upon some measure of litigation to solidify the substantial authority of these immunity protections. Despite this, however, there were already existing laws in place which provide significant protections to the hospitals and clinicians involved, so long as they acted based on accepted guidelines of care, which brings us back to the protocols established by the CDC, which were followed, per all of the reports that I have read on this case with Mr. Ng – administration of Ivermectin is not among these protocols, in spite of the court order, and the stipulations of the state boards and multiple licensing boards would support the hospitals against treating their patients. Should any case succeed in a suit base on the single issue of Ivermectin, it would be a challenge to the entire medical industry, so there would be a great deal of pressure to have the case dismissed via summary judgement.
Ng’s case, however, would be quite distinctly at odds with the case of Ali Shultz’s mother and the notorious case of Veronica Wolski, the Chicago Bridge Lady. In both of these cases, the patients are reported to have had sustenance and/or fluids withheld for days prior to the patient’s deaths – a disturbingly recurring report that I have heard too often over the past several months. Should these reports be substantiated by the evidence, and they each claim to have audio recordings to this effect, it would overcome any liability protections.
In the past two years, no lawyer would take a case against a hospital or doctor due to the hero worship that the medical industry has achieved in that time, which would strain the perceptions of the jury. Earlier this year, I spoke with someone in Illinois who told me that no lawyers would touch a legal suit against the hospitals. In the past couple of months this seems to be changing, at least in other areas of the country. In a surprising canary in the coal mine case brought in October, the patient’s suit against their care provider was successful in awarding a $1.2million judgement. It has been noted that in the past, a jury would listen to the medical experts and their demeanor would be a significant part of the jury’s perceptions on the case. Since the outbreak of Covid, however, the jury pools will have significantly increased understanding of some of the medical details, especially related to the Covid cases, and many will come with predetermined opinions of treatments, care and other details of a case based on their own personal connection with being hospitalized, or such a situation with a loved one. The impact of this is that the jury experts are very uncertain how to approach it.
For myself, I am encouraged by the judgement in the case in Rhode Island. Crimes have been committed, and people have been harmed due to no fault of their own beyond trusting those they should be able to trust, and they have been badly served for that trust.
I sincerely hope that the hospital and the doctor in charge is SUED for their failure under simple Hippocratic principles of “do no harm”.
Considering that he was near to death, what did the hospital have to lose? It seems that the more we dig into this, the more it become a case of hidden agendas, the first being that IMV effectively makes all of the expensive, experimental stuff far less valuable with Pfizer and other stock values plummeting, secondly, loosens political grip on a cowed population and thirdly the medical profession would have to do something they’re almost completely incapable of, admitting they got it wrong, despite overwhelming evidence.
The latter is by far the worst, as it’s not new. Cholera, scurvy, puerperal fever, asepsis, where proof had been demonstrated of treatment yet preferred lots of dead people to admitting they were wrong.
This should have been front page news worldwide.
Normal is 1-2 cases per 100K.
Boys are demonstrating rates of ~ 6-37 per 100K…
Girls are demonstrating rates of ~ 3-21 per 100K…
Overall children are demonstrating rates of ~ 19 per 100K…
This is data. And the data is deeply troubling, as the authors note:
Epidemiology of Acute Myocarditis/Pericarditis in Hong Kong Adolescents Following Comirnaty Vaccination
No matter how absurd, no matter how costly or how damaging, they will will support their narrative as it supports their new social arrangement.
The “hospitals” do nothing. It takes “people” to do nothing and these people should be held seriously accountable if their decisions go wrong… particularly if they flout court orders issued to give dying people a chance to live.
A dedicated family, a rouge doctor, and diligent lawyer saved this man’s life to the great frustration of the hospital…oh and a little thing called IVM…It works early, it works late and it works as prophylaxis. Don’t get caught being trapped in a hospital where your care is managed for you rather than by you. Contact a physician willing to supply these medications to you to have on hand at home so treatment can prevent the dreadful outcome that Mr. Ng and his family faced. Though he survived, many, many do not, succumbing to the care of the hospitals while litigation is pursued and sometimes even ignored by the hospitals…