ICYMI – A judge with no medical degree decided that the best thing for her courtroom would be to play god and here is the despicable way she is doing it…
The Manhattan judge with no medical degree truly let her authority go to her head, because she said that she was not going to force a hospital to give a man who is severely ill with COVID-19 a controversial drug called Ivermectin even though the man’s wife began a lawsuit for this non-FDA treatment.
Erika Quintero-Sherry was the one who brought this civil case against Mount Sinai hospital seeking an emergency order on behalf of her husband, Benjamin Chernyavski. In a nutshell, she wanted the ability to give this Ivermectin drug to her husband because he has been on “death’s doorstep” since contracting the virus.
It was following two days of hearings regarding the case, including some testimony from two Mount Sinai doctors, that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lynn Kotler said that she wasn’t going to grant any emergency request to force the staff at the hospital to administer this based on the “paltry” evidence from Quintero-Sherry. She also said she wasn’t interested in going against Chernyavsky’s doctor’s recommendations and the broader medical community’s recommendations.
Following two days of hearings in the case, including testimony from two Mount Sinai doctors, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lynn Kotler said she wouldn’t grant the emergency request to force the hospital’s staff to administer the risky drug based on Quintero-Sherry’s “paltry” evidence and going against Chernyavsky’s treating doctor’s recommendations, as well as the recommendations from the medical community at large, even though she is a judge with no medical degree.
“Plaintiff would have this court order the defendants to administer an unapproved treatment to her husband against defendants’ medical opinion rendered in the independent exercise of their professional judgment,” the decision by Kotler read. “Indeed, the record reveals that if prescribed ivermectin, Mr. Chernyavsky’s condition may very well worsen.”
“The prevailing view in the medical community … is that ivermectin should not be prescribed,” Kotler said, describing the opinion of the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a litany of other medical associations.
“Plaintiff’s paltry showing is insufficient to overcome the mountain of evidence showing that ivermectin is not presently safe or effective in the treatment of COVID-19,” Kotler wrote.
Kotler was also quick to note testimony from Mount Sinai doctors that Chernyavsky is probably no longer infected with COVID-19, but now he must recover from the effects the disease has had on his body and organs.”
The judge did not grant that emergency motion, but she said that the rest of the case is still going to need to play out in court.
“Mount Sinai is committed to providing the highest quality care to all of our patients and uses evidence-based data in our clinical decision-making,” a hospital spokesperson said in a statement. “We are pleased with the judge’s decision to sustain the decisions of our clinicians to refrain from using ivermectin for treatment of COVID -19.”
“Ivermectin has not been shown to be safe nor effective for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19, and the FDA has not authorized or approved this treatment for this use,” the statement continued.
Quintero-Sherry’s lawyers did not return a request for comment.
Chernyavsky is a 60-year-old father of five who contracted the virus and he eventually had to be put on a ventilator and placed in a medically induced coma. Quintero-Sherry argued to the court that her husband only had a 20 percent chance of survival.
Chernyavski’s wife also said that the hospital had exhausted all of the other COVID-19 protocols for the patients, and she would have strongly preferred that they administer the ivermectin to her husband rather than the alleged “wait and see” that the hospital was taking.
The drug was originally a horse and cow dewormer but it soon raised headlines during the pandemic because it was reportedly being used by COVID patients to treat their bug.
To date, it has only been improved for human use to treat parasitic infections such as head lice and some skin conditions, according to FDA policies.
“The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals,” the agency says on its website.
