Attorney Ralph Lorigo says people who got COVID-19 should have the right to try alternative treatments such as ivermectin, responding to the recent decision of an Ohio judge who refused to force a hospital to administer ivermectin to a ventilated COVID-19 patient. Lorigo is one of the attorneys of plaintiff Julie Smith, who sued West Chester Hospital on Aug. 20 for declining to administer ivermectin to her husband after offering to release the hospital of “any and all” responsibility and getting an ivermectin prescription from a doctor. On Monday, Butler County Common Pleas Judge Michael Oster reversed a decision made by another judge, Gregory Howard, two weeks ago, ruling that the plaintiff could not meet the burden to be entitled to a preliminary injunction because the medical and scientific communities do not support the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19. “Why you don’t have the right to try?” Lorigo …