By Modesto P. Sa-onoy
The chorus of governments, allied members of health community and large pharmaceutical companies have been bombarding us with one ex-cathedra statement: there is no cure or treatment for Covid-19 and that “soon” a vaccine will be developed as the cure for this disease. To enforce this blanket statement, they blocked all other treatments except the vitamins to strengthen our immune system.
To determine who is sick, the government used the PCR test that became their unerring means of segregating the positive into quarantines. I have cited several experts who said that the PCR is unreliable but governments listened only to the World Health Organization as an inerrant authority.
Last week the WHO changed its protocol for confirming a positive Covid-19 test. It now describes PCR tests merely as an “aid for diagnosis” without placing any greater weight upon the PCR test results. The unerring WHO was wrong. I will discuss next week why and the impact of this change of protocol that dramatically cut the incidence of the disease all over the world.
This sudden change only shows that the WHO can be wrong and I believe its refusal to recognize the effectiveness of alternative treatments for the disease is influenced by financial and political interests.
Coming out just before the WHO changed its mind, the Buffalo News in New York reported that a judge ordered the Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital to use experimental Covid-19 treatment, and the 80-year old patient, Judith Smentkiewicz recovered.
The drug Ivermectin, a pill sometimes used to treat children with head lice or to rid dogs and cats of worms, is not yet approved by the federal government for use against Covid-19. But Smentkiewicz’s son and daughter call it “a miracle drug” in their court papers.
“This lady was on a ventilator, literally on her deathbed, before she was given this drug,” Ralph Lorigo, one of the lawyers, told The Buffalo News about Smentkiewicz. “The judge’s order saved this woman’s life.”
Lorigo said one doctor at the hospital allowed the patient to be given Ivermectin, but after she was given one dose another doctor at the hospital refused to allow further doses. The family went to court to force the hospital to resume treatment with Ivermectin. State Supreme Court Judge Henry J. Nowak sided with them.
Dr. Thomas A. Russo, one of the region’s leading experts on infectious diseases, said people should never jump to conclusions about Ivermectin or any other drug based on one patient’s outcome. Russo is not involved in the Smentkiewicz case.
The patient’s son, Michael said hospital officials told him on December 31 that their mother’s chance of survival was about 20% and would probably be on a ventilator in the ICU for at least a month. “In less than 48 hours, my mother was taken off the ventilator, transferred out of the ICU, sat up on her own and communicating.”
But after her mother was transferred to another hospital wing away from the ICU, doctors there refused to give her any more doses of Ivermectin. Her condition quickly declined.
“We did a lot of our own research, we read about Ivermectin and we decided we had to try something different,” Michael said. “We pressured the doctor in the ICU to give it to her. He finally agreed.”
On Jan. 2, Smentkiewicz was given her first dose of Ivermectin, and she made “a complete turnaround.”
“We were astounded when they refused to give her any more doses,” Michael said, so they went to court.
Kaleida Health, which operates the hospital, opposed the family’s request in court. The hospital lawyer argued doctors, not the courts, should be making decisions about medical care.
On Jan. 8, Judge Nowak ordered the hospital to “immediately administer the drug Ivermectin” to Smentkiewicz.
Lorigo said. “In 46 years as an attorney, I’ve never seen another case where a family had to get a court order to continue a treatment that had already been started by a hospital.”
Michael said Thursday that his mother’s condition has improved again since the Ivermectin treatments resumed and appears to have “turned the corner” in her fight against the virus. He believes in the power of prayer.
Let’s continue tomorrow more about Ivermectin.
