CASE STUDY: DEATH FROM COVID-19 OF A 57-YEAR-OLD MAN REFUSING MEDICAL CARE AND SELF-MEDICATING WITH IVERMECTIN

• Published in: Central European journal of public health Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 265 - 267
• Main Authors: Šín, Robin, Kubiska, Miroslav
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Prague National Institute of Public Health 01-12-2022
• Subjects: Antiviral agents; Blood pressure; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Case reports; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; CPR; Death; Diabetes; Disease transmission; Drug dosages; Dyspnea; False information; Hospitalization; Hypertension; Immunization; Ivermectin; Kidneys; Laboratories; Lungs; Medical imaging; Mortality; Oxygen saturation; Oxygen therapy; Patients; Pneumonia; Respiration; Risk factors; Self-medication; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Signs and symptoms; Thromboembolism; Vaccination; Viral diseases
• ISSN: 1210-7778; 1803-1048
• DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a7643

Since December 2019, the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes COVID-19 disease worldwide, which occurs mainly in unvaccinated elderly and polymorbid patients with a more severe course and increased risk of complications and death. Vaccination and specific therapy for the disease using mainly new antiviral drugs are the way to reduce the number of infected, hospitalized patients with a more severe course. We present a case report of an at-risk polymorbid 57-year-old man who refused vaccination and standard treatment for COVID-19 disease based on misinformation from the community. He self-treated himself with high dose of ivermectin. The patient died at home 14 days after the onset of symptoms.