Canada’s stockpile of ventilators went from 500 pre-pandemic to 27,000 now. The federal government had awarded multiple contracts to produce ventilators before a dramatic drop in their use at the end of 2020. The total cost of the ventilators was more than $807 million, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) told The Canadian Press. Many of…

The need for medical patients to have their own advocates has become critical in light of increasing reports from family members who believe their loved ones died in the hospital because of the COVID-19 treatment protocols prescribed by doctors. To assist in breaking up what Priscilla Romans called “an unhealthy co-dependency” between patients and the…

A Minnesota man battling COVID-19 has been transferred to a Texas hospital after a judge ruled that he cannot be taken off life support. Scott Quiner, 55, a father-of-three, contracted COVID-19 in October and was put on a ventilator at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, in November. His wife, Anne Quiner, was reportedly told…

A Minnesota man battling COVID-19 has been transferred to a Texas hospital after a judge ruled that he cannot be taken off life support. Scott Quiner, 55, a father-of-three, contracted COVID-19 in October and was put on a ventilator at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, in November. His wife, Anne Quiner, was reportedly told…

A Florida family fighting to give their loved one on a ventilator alternative treatments for COVID-19 have lost another battle—this time in Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. The wife and son of Daniel Pisano first squared off against Mayo Clinic Florida at an emergency hearing on Dec. 30 in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit. Before…

The family of a dying patient at a Florida hospital has filed an emergency appeal they hope will overturn a lower court’s decision and force Mayo Clinic to give their preferred treatment for COVID-19. Judge Marianne Aho of Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit ruled against the family during an emergency hearing Dec. 30. In her order,…

A mother and son filed a lawsuit in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Court Wednesday against Mayo Clinic Florida, asking a judge to compel the hospital to give ivermectin and other treatments to their loved one now on “death’s doorstep.” The hospital has denied the family’s request to try alternative treatments for COVID-19 that have been prescribed…

YORK, Pennsylvania—Keith Smith received the first of three doses of ivermectin Monday, while being treated for COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at UPMC Memorial Hospital; the York, Pennsylvania hospital objected to the treatment, but Keith’s wife Darla Smith got a court order to allow it. “Ivermectin has been prescribed for human use for 35…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Philips to conduct more tests on the foam used in its recalled ventilators, after the agency found several new issues at the Dutch company’s manufacturing facility. The medical equipment company recalled some breathing devices and ventilators in June because of a silicone-based foam part that might…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday classified the recall of Philips’ breathing devices and ventilators as Class 1, or the most serious type of recall, saying the use of these devices may cause serious injuries or death. The agency said there have been 83 complaints regarding the products used to provide breathing assistance,…