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Florida Doctor: Families Sneak Ivermectin to Loved Ones in Hospitals With COVID-19, See Improvement<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Florida<\/a>\u00a0doctor says families of loved ones hospitalized with\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0are resorting to desperate measures when approved treatments have failed.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when it\u2019s not too late, some have seen tremendous success by sneaking medications prohibited by hospitals to patients, says Eduardo Balbona, an independent internist in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s helped dozens of seriously ill patients recover using ivermectin and other drugs and supplements not officially approved in the treatment of COVID-19, he says.<\/p>\n

Hospitals receive payments from the federal government for treating patients with COVID-19. But those payments are tied to their use of approved treatments only, as outlined in the\u00a0CARES Act<\/a>. When there\u2019s nothing left to try under those protocols, families naturally research alternatives,\u00a0 Balbona says, often learning about treatments touted by independent physicians around the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoping to try anything that might work, families around the country have filed lawsuits asking judges to intervene.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In some cases, judges have ordered hospitals to allow the use of other treatments, such as ivermectin. Some of those seriously ill patients have recovered. In other cases, judges have sided with hospitals and declined the families\u2019 requests to try.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, independent physicians like Balbona watch helplessly, feeling that when families ask, they should be allowed to try medications they believe can turn critically ill patients around. But independent doctors often have limited hospital privileges and may be banned from seeing their own patients in some hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n

B<\/span>ased on what the woman told him, Balbona said he felt strongly her husband could recover if treated with the regimen he prescribes for seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The treatment protocol<\/a>\u00a0he follows, with slight modifications based on each patient\u2019s needs, was developed by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance. That was the case recently for Balbona, who was contacted by a worried wife after she read in The Epoch Times about his involvement in another\u00a0family\u2019s lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0seeking to try his recommendations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe husband was very ill,\u201d Balbona said. \u201cHe\u2019s in his 50s, a big strong guy. She called me desperate because they gave him remdesivir [in the hospital] and she made them stop it, and he started getting worse and worse. And his oxygen demand went up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time she called Balbona for help, her husband needed 60 liters of oxygen per minute. That\u2019s too high to manage at home, even with rented medical equipment, Balbona said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can get them down to 40 or 50 [liters per minute] you can do high-flow oxygen at that level,\u201d Balbona told The Epoch Times. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of oxygen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said he promised he\u2019d try if her husband improved enough to go home. And then he\u2019d take over managing his care. Meanwhile, he said, he gave her prescriptions, so she could collect the medications she\u2019d need at home. That was on a Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

He learned later that she\u2019d filled the prescriptions, took the medications to the hospital, and gave them to her husband. By Tuesday, the man was discharged and fully following the protocol Balbona prescribed. A few days later, he was off the oxygen. Now, he\u2019s recovering, Balbona said. But they\u2019re afraid to share their good news publicly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who snuck in the ivermectin\u2026 they are scared to death,\u201d Balbona said. \u201cShe is sure that the government is going to find out who she is\u201d and possibly arrest her for giving medications not approved by the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said she told him, \u201cI did it. I knew it was wrong. I don\u2019t know what the penalties are. What could they do to me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the real crime, Balbona believes.<\/span><\/p>\n

In New Hampshire, lawmakers now are considering legislation that would make the state the first in the country to make\u00a0Ivermectin<\/a>\u00a0available as an over-the-counter medicine, and sanction it as a protected treatment for COVID-19. Similar bills in three other states have failed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s sponsor,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Rep. Leah Cushman (R) is a registered nurse, who told The Epoch Times, \u201cI have absolutely no doubt lives will be saved if human grade ivermectin was available to COVID patients.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two doctors testified about her proposed bill, warning the legislation could lead to dangerous side effects for people who use the drug. But Cushman believes she\u2019ll have the votes to keep the bill moving toward becoming law.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, though the drug is used in humans to treat a variety of conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An\u00a0FDA web page warning against using ivermectin<\/a>\u00a0for COVID-19\u00a0<\/span>also mentions that\u00a0clinical trials<\/a>\u00a0investigating it as a treatment are ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FDA has not responded to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) asking for details about any reports of side effects related to the use of ivermectin \u2014 formulations for animals and humans \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>to treat COVID-19. The agency also has not responded to a FOIA request for details about clinical trials and when the drug could reach the stage when its use under the\u00a0Right To Try Act<\/a>\u00a0could be allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Studies<\/a>\u00a0about the safety and efficacy of using ivermectin in the treatment for COVID-19 have led to all or part of\u00a022 countries<\/a>\u00a0approving its use. But in the United States, doctors who rely on payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services aren\u2019t allowed to use it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Balbona heard about the proposed legislation, he immediately called two state senators, and two attorneys who are patients, suggesting that they propose similar legislation in Florida. Florida lawmakers currently are in session in Tallahassee through March 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get legislation to say, \u2018Let the doctor do what he thinks is best,\u2019 I think that would be wonderful,\u201d Balbona said. \u201cIf New Hampshire can do this, why can\u2019t we?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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