{"id":85674,"date":"2021-09-23T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85674"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:41:14","slug":"husband-father-dies-after-being-denied-ivermectin-by-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85674","title":{"rendered":"Husband & father dies after being denied ivermectin by hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018It brings me unbearable sadness to let you know that my sweet, kind, hardworking husband passed away,\u2019 Melissa Abbott told LifeSiteNews.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Tim Jackson
\n(LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 An Alabama man whose doctor dismissed pleas that he be given ivermectin died just nine days after being admitted to hospital with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Todd Abbott, 43, died Friday at UAB Medical Center West in Bessemer, Alabama, after doctors refused to honor several appeals by his wife to have ivermectin administered to him. Abbott, a father of two teenage daughters, was later transferred to intensive care and put under sedation while on a ventilator.<\/p>\n

Tragically, the man\u2019s condition worsened as his kidneys shut down, fluid built up in his lungs and a blood clot developed in his leg.<\/p>\n

Melissa Abbott, Todd\u2019s wife of 19 years, is now left to pick up the pieces after losing her husband in such devastating circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never felt so much pain. My heart is breaking into pieces. The joy has been ripped from my life,\u201d Melissa told LifeSiteNews. \u201cSo now, I\u2019m supposed to know how to move on and raise our teen daughters at such a precious age for a father to be around \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa did everything possible to have other treatments such as ivermectin given to her husband, even engaging a law firm to persuade the hospital to take action, but from the outset she felt the doctor treating Todd \u201cspoke disrespectfully\u201d and dismissively to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also have overwhelming anger for the medical system and the doctor who treated my husband and, up to the day he died, still refused to give him the Ivermectin and told me he wasn\u2019t going to discuss it,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Help this widow support her children & take legal action:<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>www.lifefunder.com\/ivermectin<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Melissa\u00a0had told<\/a>\u00a0LifeSiteNews last week, before her husband\u2019s death, that she felt \u201clike a prisoner\u201d and that the doctors were \u201cthe wardens\u201d due to their refusal to administer ivermectin to her COVID-stricken husband.<\/p>\n

The bereaved mother now plans to seek further legal help in trying to ensure doctors at the hospital learn from her husband\u2019s death, so that no other family has to experience the loss the Abbott family has.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe night before, my husband had been doing pretty good and his stats were looking good \u2026 the next morning they said his lung had collapsed, his heart rate dropped and his oxygen was at 50-60%,\u201d she told LifeSiteNews. \u201cI went to say my goodbyes with my father-in-law and brother-in-law \u2026 I didn\u2019t want our daughters to see him in the state he was in \u2026 it\u2019s the worst thing to ever endure. I was with him when he passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctor was always very grim and seemed to feed off of giving me the worst news \u2026 every time I asked about trying the ivermectin he would immediately shoot it down, saying we weren\u2019t going to talk about it, like he had all the rights to my husband\u2019s health,\u201d she continued. \u201cI am looking into my options for legal rights in regards to my husband\u2019s health care or actually lack thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa is also faced with the daunting task of having to provide for their two children, Carissa and Ava, without the help of the hardworking man she loved so dearly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the worst thing I\u2019ve ever had to endure and don\u2019t know how I will ever go on, while trying to raise our daughters alone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Todd\u2019s obituary\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0that he \u201clived his life never meeting a stranger, while blessing people with his infectious smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou knew you were in his circle of friends if he called you buddy. He truly was a servant of the Lord working as a Roadmaster for Watco Railroad and doing for others less fortunate, whether it was handing out food on the weekend or participating in a building project for someone in need,\u201d the tribute continues. \u201cHe was never afraid of hard work. Todd loved God, his family, Alabama Football, and hunting with friends. If you were blessed to know Todd, then you knew you had a friend for life who would do anything for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

An intensive care specialist and member of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) last month said ivermectin was the drug that \u201ccould end the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is just a mountain of evidence supporting its use and it is being used effectively in many portions of the world, but there is a lot of resistance to Ivermectin,\u201d Dr. Pierre Kory told\u00a0Newstalk<\/a>\u00a0on August 13. \u201cIn fact, there is a very strong and deep opposition in public health agencies \u2014 in the ivory towers \u2014 and that is something I have had to become an expert on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a repurposed drug. It is cheap, it is off-patent and you can\u2019t really make a significant amount of money off of it,\u201d he added. \u201cWatching what happens to a drug like that has been astonishing. It has been a lesson in life and not one that I have happily learned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kory said ivermectin is being \u201ccensored and buried\u201d because it threatens \u201cprobably the largest financial interests you can imagine,\u201d with the WHO, FDA and European Medicines Agency continuing to claim there are not enough studies to allow for its full authorization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a tactic that they are using to very great effect,\u201d Dr. Kory said. \u201cThey complain that there is no \u2018proper\u2019 trial as they define it. So, really, they are creating a system where only really large pharma-funded trials are recognized as valid. That is actually wrong; it departs from medicine and it actually leads to this irregular adoption of medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ivermectin trials have so far shown \u201cmassive reductions\u201d in mortality, hospitalization, time to clinical recovery and viral clearance times, according to Kory.<\/p>\n

The intensive care specialist is among a growing number of experts who say these inexpensive treatments for COVID-19 are being suppressed to ensure experimental vaccines are given emergency use authorization by health authorities.<\/p>\n

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