Wife of Jewish COVID Patient Suing To Force NYC Hospital To Treat Husband With Ivermectin

The wife of a COVID-stricken man “on death’s doorstep” wants a judge to force a Manhattan hospital to give her husband Ivermectin — a derided treatment not approved by the Food and Drug Administration to combat the virus, the NY Post reports.

Erika Quintero-Sherry, 48, filed suit against Mount Sinai West claiming that despite her rabbi husband Benjamin Chernyavsky’s doctor recommending the drug, other doctors in the intensive care unit of the 10th Avenue hospital have refused, according to a suit filed Wednesday.

The 60-year-old father of five contracted the virus on Jan. 8 and is now on a ventilator in a medically induced coma. The suit claims he has less than a 20 percent chance of surviving.

“Once my husband went onto the ventilator, I felt like, what do we do now?” Quintero-Sherry told The Post. “Are we going to try something else or are we continuing with the same protocol that isn’t working and just keep him on oxygen?”

“Every day I go to the hospital and it’s just nerve wracking,” the wife said.

Chernyavsky’s mother, Margaret Franco, 78, told The Post the situation is a “nightmare.”

“It’s a nightmare to see … your son laying there and nothing is being done for him,” Franco said.

“He is having excellent care from the hospital for the rest of his body but not for COVID — which is going to kill him,” Franco said. “And he’s been on the ventilator for 11 days now, and how much longer can he live on the ventilator?”

“To see him suffering and we can’t do anything — it’s absurd,” she said.

Chernyavsky’s daughter, Diane Sherry, 31, said, they “are wiling to try” Ivermectin because “the most important thing for us is to do anything to save his life.” Read more at the NY Post.

{Matzav.com}