WHEATON, Ill. (WBBMN NEWSRADIO) -- A COVID-19 patient who sued Edward Hospital in Naperville to receive the controversial anti-parasite drug Ivermectin, typically used in animals, is improving, according to his attorney, and breathing on his own.
Attorney Ralph Lorigo, who’s from upstate New York and has been filing lawsuits across the country to get court orders to use the drug, appeared before DuPage County Judge Paul Fullerton.
Fullerton ordered that the patient, 71-year-old Sun Ng, be given ivermectin over the hospital’s objections.
Ng had been on a ventilator and Lorigo told the judge, after five days of treatment by an outside doctor, Ng removed the breathing tube on his own and is no longer in intensive care.
The Daily Herald reports that Ng's daughter "feels this is a miraculous situation."
But Joseph Monahan, the attorney representing the hospital, said the man’s condition was already improving before the judge ordered the controversial treatment.
He said, "We continue to strenuously object to the false science narrative that is being given to the court without basis."
Lorigo fired back, "The arrogance of the hospital is amazing to me."
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