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As WNY attorney fights for COVID patients to get ivermectin treatment, UB doctor cautions more studies are neededBy Ryan Whalen BuffaloUPDATED 7:31 PM ET Sep. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:43 PM ET Sep. 15, 2021BUFFALO, N.Y.
– In January, attorney Ralph Lorigo received a call from a family who wanted to treat their 80-year-old mother, on a ventilator because of COVID-19, with ivermectin. Lorigo helped them get a court order from the judge, and less than a week later, her condition improved and she was out of the hospital."We've repeated that a number of times at this point and we now have been getting calls over the last several months actually, getting calls from all over the country," the attorney said.Lorigo said based on more than 60 studies he's researched he believes in the efficacy of the drug. He's now handled nearly 100 similar cases of families hoping the courts will intervene when hospitals refuse to administer the drug, which the FDA has not approved to treat COVID-19. That has led doctors to be hesitant to prescribe and administer the drug."There are ethical concerns about prescribing medication for reasons not having to do with an expected good outcome from that medication and that is, 'Oh, the family is demanding it, let me get them off my back,'" Dr. Kevin Gibbons said, the executive director of UBMD Physicians Group.Lorigo now has four attorneys besides himself dedicated to ivermectin-related cases."Every day I get somewhere between 80 and 150 emails and requests for information and help. We freely give the information. I talk to people on a regular business. I've been here seven days a week for the last seven weeks without a day off, trying to get people the information that they so desperately need," Lorigo said.Not every case has been successful though. Recently, in a scenario at the same hospital as his first ivermectin case, the same judge refused a court order."That lady died last night," Lorigo said. "She could have had five doses of ivermectin, which might have saved her life like it did in that first case. I feel absolutely terrible about that situation. I think the hospital was wrong to deny her the continuation of a drug they had given her."