It was a scene that doctors saw play out over and over during the COVID-19 pandemic, said David Pate, the former president and CEO of St. Luke’s Health System.
People brought critically ill family members to the hospital and were “in shock” when they learned that a family member had been infected by the coronavirus even though he or she had been taking ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug. The family member had been assured that taking ivermectin meant they couldn’t get COVID and didn’t need a vaccine.
Some families asked doctors whether their loved ones could be vaccinated there at the hospital. But “it’s too late at that point,” Pate told the Idaho Statesman in February…