Jan. 22, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| Good evening and happy birthday to the Bill of Rights, which was officially added to the U.S. Constitution exactly 230 years ago today. | |
| Now, to start with, a judge over in Virginia, he ruled that a hospital was in contempt because they refused to administer ivermectin to a dying woman, despite the fact that her family physician recommended it. | |
| And furthermore, this judge gave the hospital two options, either administer the drug or pay a $10,000 per day fine for every day that they refused to do so. | |
| Meanwhile, over in Colorado, a local elementary school is looking to the past. | |
| That's because that particular school is now having playground nights specifically for families of color. | |
| Let's go through it all together. | |
| This is your daily Facts Matter update, and I'm your host, Roman, from the Epoch Times. | |
| And now let's begin today's discussion over in Virginia, where a judge has just ruled in favor of holding a hospital in contempt, and he offered that hospital two options. | |
| Either give ivermectin to a dying woman, or pay $10,000 in fines per day for every day that they refuse to do so. | |
| Now, before we dive into the story itself, I would like to mention, specifically to any YouTube censors that might be watching this video, that I have absolutely no opinion on this particular matter or about this particular drug. | |
| I am just reporting the specifics of what happened so that the people in America can be informed about what is happening in this country. | |
| And as always... | |
| I think it goes without saying that you should do your own research. | |
| You should not just listen to a guy on YouTube, and you should instead speak to your own doctor when making any kind of informed medical decisions. | |
| Now, let's get into what happened over in Virginia, specifically what happened to a certain family that was trying to make their own medical decisions. | |
| And to start with, let me give you a bit of background on this particular case. | |
| A woman by the name of Kathleen Davis, she developed a severe case of COVID, and she was sent to the Fauquier Hospital, which is located in the city of Fauquier, Virginia. | |
| However... | |
| Her symptoms got progressively worse. | |
| She's been hooked up to a ventilator since November the 3rd, so well over a month now. | |
| And sadly, according to her son, she is on her deathbed. | |
| And so, it was amidst this situation that the woman's family doctor prescribed ivermectin to the woman. | |
| And in case you've never heard of it, ivermectin is an FDA-approved drug which is typically prescribed to treat several types of intestinal parasites. | |
| And the drug is used fairly widespread. | |
| It's been administered to billions of people around the world. | |
| In fact, the people who discovered this particular drug... | |
| They won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine. | |
| However, it is worth noting that this drug is not approved by the FDA to treat COVID, even though many people use it for that purpose anyway, including the family doctor who prescribed it to this woman who is on the ventilator. | |
| However, what happened, according to the family of this woman at least, is that the hospital, they refused to administer the ivermectin to this dying woman, citing medical, legal, as well as other concerns. | |
| And so, seeing no other option, the family of this woman, they filed a lawsuit against the hospital, with the intention being to compel the hospital to administer the drug. | |
| Speaking to a local media, here's what the woman's son had to say. | |
| It's been 42 days today that she's been on the ventilator. | |
| It's a matter of life and death. | |
| She's on her deathbed. | |
| Any kind of negative repercussions from ivermectin are null and void. | |
| Furthermore, he argued that since all the other treatment options haven't worked, they should be able to try the drug. | |
| Here's what he said. | |
| I'm not trying to go after the hospital. | |
| I just want them to use it in hopes that it will help. | |
| I'm not saying definitely that I think 100% that ivermectin is going to work, but at the end of the day, whether my mom lives or dies, I'll be able to say we tried everything. | |
| And then, speaking a bit more directly about the issue at hand, here's what he said the hospital was actually doing. | |
| They believe it's a fight between the rights of the hospital and the rights of the citizens. | |
| They feel their rights trump her rights. | |
| And so then, after bouncing around the legal system for a little while, The case found itself before Judge James Fisher. | |
| And three days ago, the judge issued this official court order here, which found the hospital in contempt for, quote, needlessly interposing requirements that stand in the way of the patient's desired physician administering investigational drugs as part of the HDA and the federal and state right to try acts. | |
| Now, I just want to pause here for a quick moment. | |
| The HDA that is mentioned here refers to the Health Care Decisions Act, while the right to try acts, that was something, at least at the federal level, that was passed under President Trump. | |
| And it allows people who are essentially on their deathbeds to take experimental drugs that otherwise have not been yet approved. | |
| Now, in this order, the judge then continued, and he gave the hospital two options. | |
| Here's what he wrote. | |
| Meaning, in plain language rather than legalese, Now for every day after this injunction was submitted on December the 9th that the hospital refuses to administer the ivermectin, they will have to pay a penalty of $10,000 per day. | |
| And indeed, this ultimatum actually worked. | |
| Because on Monday, on Monday evening to be specific, the woman's son, he told a local news outlet that two doses of ivermectin were administered to his mother. | |
| And furthermore, here's what the son's lawyer had to say about the ruling. | |
| This judge is the hero. | |
| He had the guts. | |
| He had the stamina. | |
| He had the willingness to enforce what he said. | |
| On the flip side, however, we, here at the Epoch Times, we reached out to the hospital for comment, and their spokeswoman got back to us with a statement saying that she would like to correct some of the misinformation regarding this family's treatment. | |
| Here's what she wrote to us. | |
| As outlined in the court's documents, a patient's family filed a petition seeking to compel our hospital to administer medication prescribed by an outside physician. | |
| This physician had no privileges to practice medicine at our hospital. | |
| We are unable to administer medications to our patients without a valid order from a physician on our medical staff, and that doing so would violate standard hospital practice in Virginia. | |
| Law. | |
| Now to pause for a quick moment, the implication here in this statement is that the family physician wanted to prescribe ivermectin, but since none of the attending physicians at the hospital wanted to do so, well, the hospital was not able to comply, even if they wanted to. | |
| She then continued by saying this, quote, And then she went on to say that only after the court provided what she called additional guidance and clarification were they able to administer the drug. | |
| Now, thus far, we have not heard any updates from the family, besides the one on Monday when they confirmed that the ivermectin was in fact administered. | |
| And when we hear anything from them, we will let you know right away. | |
| However, it is worth mentioning that this case in Virginia is not an isolated incident. | |
| There have, in fact, been many cases across the entire country, including this one here out in Illinois, wherein patients had to sue the hospital in order for them to administer this particular drug. | |
| However, there is something that I wanted to note here and that is these different cases that are playing themselves out across the country, they are playing themselves out at the individual state level and the individual cases are different from one another and so you do have different rulings, for instance. | |
| This judge over in Ohio just about six weeks ago, he ruled in a much different direction than the case that we saw in Virginia. | |
| This judge actually said that a hospital cannot be forced to administer ivermectin to a COVID patient. | |
| And actually, the circumstances in this particular case were very similar. | |
| A person on a ventilator in the hospital, his personal physician had suggested that he take ivermectin and the hospital staff wasn't complying so they went to the judge. | |
| However, the judge in the case, he took a different route. | |
| He basically said, citing the FDA, he said that the medical and scientific communities do not support treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. | |
| Some doctors do support using the drug against COVID-19, and studies that appear to show its efficacy were limited and inconsistent. | |
| And then he wrote, quote, based upon the evidence, it has not been shown to be effective at this juncture. | |
| And based on that, he made the decision that hospitals can be forced to administer it. | |
| However, again, these cases vary, especially in their details, because the judge in this particular case, he said that the patient could actually get her husband admitted to a different hospital where their family physician does have privileges, and so at that hospital, they could continue to use Iremectin. | |
| So again, all the details in these different cases, they vary. | |
| The states vary, the jurisdictions vary, the state laws vary, and so what we'll likely see is that these cases will continue playing themselves out. | |
| I saw that one The lawyer, the same lawyer who's actually representing the case over in Virginia, he has over 150 other cases that he's overseeing as well regarding ivermectin across the country. | |
| And so what will likely happen is that eventually some case will make it up to the appellate level and then perhaps even the Supreme Court level, and then we might get some kind of a decision that will unify the entire country. | |
| Until then, if you'd like to read either this story or the other story that we discussed, I'll throw all that into the description box below. | |
| Otherwise, Roman in the studio, back to you. | |
| Which again, I just want to mention, I absolutely do not advocate for or against. | |
| I'm just reporting what is happening across the country. | |
| Otherwise, if you'd like to read about this particular case out in Virginia, including the judge's order, I will throw the links, including the link to this PDF, into the description box below this video so you can check it out for yourself. | |
| And all I ask in return is that you take a quick moment to smash that like button for the YouTube algorithm. | |
| Now, before we move on over and discuss how an elementary school over in Colorado is quite literally segregating their children's playground, I would like to take a quick moment and introduce our sponsor for today's episode, and I will do so from the sound booth. | |
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| And now let's move on over to Colorado. | |
| And to start with, let me show you a picture from the 1940s. | |
| It was taken at the Centennial Elementary School in Colorado, and it's a sign that says, quote, Families of Color Playground Night, Wednesday at 4.10 p.m. | |
| Now, of course, it is true that segregation was a dark part of American history. | |
| However, I was not telling you the truth. | |
| Because this picture, it was not taken in the 1940s. | |
| This picture was actually taken two days ago. | |
| That's right. | |
| In the year 2021, and under the guise of pushing inclusivity and diversity, a Colorado elementary school thought that this was a good idea. | |
| A racially segregated families of color playground night. | |
| Now this picture, it was first shared by a journalist named Christopher Ruffo, who posted this on Twitter. | |
| Denver Public Schools now promoting racially segregated playtime for equity. | |
| And then looking a bit further into it, it appears that this is not a one-off event. | |
| That's because the Centennial Elementary School, which by the way is part of the broader Denver Public School system, they posted on Facebook that this will be a new tradition. | |
| Here's what they wrote. | |
| The Families of Color Playground Night will be October the 13th. | |
| It will continue to be the second Wednesday of the month, Now, you might be asking yourself, is this even legal? | |
| Particularly given the fact that this is happening on public property and at a public school, no less. | |
| Well, according to Mr. | |
| David Kopel, who is a law professor over at Denver University, he said that this is in direct violation of the Colorado Constitution, specifically Article 9, Section 8, which says,"...nor shall any distinction or classification of pupils be made on account of race or color." However, there is nothing to worry about. | |
| Because regardless of what that sign actually said, the Centennial Elementary School, they released a statement saying that, quote, And then furthermore, because they received so much criticism from that particular photo going viral on social media, they released a longer statement saying that this colored-only playground time was actually what the community requested. | |
| Here's what they wrote. | |
| Some of these families shared with us that since the only time that many of them see one another is at drop-off and pick-up times, we host some events where black families can meet one another, connect with one another, and share their experiences about the school with one another. | |
| We are honoring their request. | |
| Although frankly, they did not clarify why these parents are not able to do that at the playground as it is. | |
| Regardless, though, the Denver public school system, they came in and they also issued a statement of their own, which defended this elementary school, saying that this, quote, However, Mr. | |
| Christopher Ruffo, who is again the journalist who initially broke the story, and he's also an expert at exposing critical race theory in the realm of education, he did not agree. | |
| Here was his response to the Denver public school system. | |
| Critical race theory has revived racial segregation in America's public institutions. | |
| Denver Public Schools' racially segregated playtime is racism under the guise of equity. | |
| Denver Public Schools should immediately suspend this program, which violates the Colorado Constitution. | |
| Regardless, though, it was reported that due to COVID protocols, they actually had to reschedule the first of these families of color playground nights until the new year. | |
| And so I guess if you live in the Colorado Springs area, you have a lot to look forward to in the year 2022. | |
| Like, for instance, a repeat of history. | |
| If you'd like to read more about this case out in Colorado, I will throw the links to it into the description box below this video for you to check out. | |
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