Florida teacher who asked to be treated with ivermectin died of COVID

A Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 died after her husband tried unsuccessfully by judicial means to force doctors to treat her with ivermectin, a drug popular with skeptics of accepted treatments despite a lack of studies to prove its efficacy. .

Tamara Drock, 47, with some comorbidities, died on Friday, 12 weeks after being hospitalized. at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Ryan Drock told the Palm Beach Post.

Last month he sued the hospital to try to force doctors to give him ivermectin, a medicine used to treat parasite disorders, usually in horses. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved the drug for the treatment of COVID-19 because not effective in preclinical testing.

Judge James Nutt rejected Drock’s lawsuit, he said, because allowing a judge to overturn a doctor’s decision would set a dangerous precedent.

He urged the Drocks and the hospital to come to an agreement on their own. A deal fell through when a doctor agreed to give ivermectin at a dose that the family’s attorney deemed too low, the Post reported. In recent months there have been numerous cases of serious poisoning due to ivermectin overdose.

Tenet Healthcare, which owns the hospital, did not respond to requests for comment, the newspaper said.

Ryan Drock, who was infected with COVID and recovered, said he will not back down in his efforts. “I hope they name a law after him so that no one else has to go through this,” Drock said. “If he had gotten out of the hospital, he would have been able to get the medicine.”

(With AP information)

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