An Ohio woman, whose husband was hospitalized with COVID-19, won a court order last week to have the Cincinnati-area hospital treat her husband with his "prescribed Ivermectin," which is an anti-parasite drug that is mostly used to treat livestock.

Judge Gregory Howard, a Common Pleas judge in Butler County, ordered West Chester Hospital to treat Jeffrey Smith, 51, with ivermectin despite multiple warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration.

The order, filed on Aug. 23, will allow Smith to be administered 30 milligrams of ivermectin daily for three weeks.

Smith has reportedly been under care for COVID-19 since July 9, and in the ICU since July 15. He was then sedated, intubated, and placed on a ventilator on Aug. 1.

Smith's wife and guardian, Julie Smith, sought Dr. Fred Wagshul, an Ohio physician who has recommended ivermectin.

Her lawsuit identifies Wagshul as, “one of the foremost experts on using Ivermectin in treating COVID-19,” the Ohio Capital Journal noted.

Ivermectin gained attention after it was endorsed by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., as well as Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. Some believe that the drug can be used to successfully treat COVID-19 even though it is not approved as a treatment and is considered poisonous by the FDA.

The FDA stated Tuesday on Twitter, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.”

Wagshul believes that ivermectin’s use in COVID-19 is “irrefutable” and is calling the CDC and FDA out for blocking its use to protect the FDA’s emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines.

“If we were a country looking at another country allowing those [COVID-19] deaths daily … we would have been screaming, ‘Genocide!’” he said in an interview.

The lawsuit references how Wagshul is a founding physician of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, a nonprofit organization and that he has no interest in the financial aspects of ivermectin.

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