NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Manhattan Supreme Court judge Lynn Kotler rejected the lawsuit of a woman who wanted to force Mount Sinai Hospital to give Ivermectin to her husband, who is sick after a severe bout of COVID-19.
Erika Quintero-Sherry sued on Jan. 26 for an emergency order to force the hospital to use the dubious treatment — an animal dewormer embraced by fringe anti-vaccine activists as an alternative treatment for coronavirus.
Quintero-Sherry’s husband, Benjamin Chernyavsky contracted COVID early last month. He was placed in a medically induced coma and ventilated to keep him alive.
Kotler pointed out that the consensus in the medical community is that Ivermectin should not be administered to treat COVID when she rejected Quintero-Sherry’s request.
“Plaintiff would have this court order defendants to administer an unapproved treatment to her husband against defendants’ medical opinion rendered in the independent exercise of their professional judgment,” Kotler said in her decision. “Indeed, the record reveals that if prescribed ivermectin, Mr. Chernyavsky’s condition may very well worsen.”
She also pointed out that the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other medical associations reject Ivermectin as a treatment for coronavirus.
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