QAnon supporters have been targeting a Chicago hospital with a coordinated campaign to force them to treat a patient with Ivermectin.
Veronica Wolski, the QAnon supporter who was hospitalized two weeks ago after contracting COVID-19 and inspired a protest demanding that she be treated with Ivermectin, has died.
A spokesperson for AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago has confirmed that Wolski passed away in the intensive care unit early Monday morning. She was 64.
QAnon supporter Veronica Wolski, 64, died early Monday from COVID-related pneumonia, two weeks after being hospitalized and demanding Ivermectin
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood released a statement confirming Wolski's death, which he called a 'medical murder'
Wolski died at AMITA Health hospital in Chicago after succumbing to pneumonia
According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, Wolski's cause of death was pneumonia resulting from COVID, with a thyroid disorder as a contributing factor, reported Chicago Tribune. Her manner of death was determined to have been natural.
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood released a statement on the social media platform Telegram that Wolski 'saw the face of God' at 12.44am on Monday.
'My faith tells me that as she knelt before her Creator, He said: 'Well done, my good and faithful child, well done.'
Wood argued that Wolski's death from COVID was a 'medical murder' and called for 'perpetrators' to be brought to justice through non-violent civil disobedience.
'We pray for ALL the are captives to medical tyranny in our country and around the world,' Wood wrote.' It must end.'
Wolski was known for posting anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracy theories from a bridge in Chicago on social media.
She was hospitalized about two weeks ago after contracting COVID and demanded to be given Ivermectin, which is used to treat infections in horses and cattle caused by parasites.
She was refused, according to social media posts by Wolski that were reviewed by Vice.
AMITA Resurrection Hospital in Northwest Chicago has faced an organized campaign of harassment, including hundreds of phone calls, emails and in-person protests, for denying Wolski the Ivermectin.
Ivermectin is not authorized or approved by the FDA for prevention or treatment of COVID-19, and the FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Medical Association and the drug manufacturer have warned against using it to treat COVID-19.
Wolski was known for posting anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracies from a bridge in Chicago on social media
L. Lin Wood, one of the attorneys who filed lawsuits in favor of Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, is one of the people behind the pro-Ivermectin movement
Over the weekend, Wolski’s supporters attempted to get the hospital to discharge her, with Wood, the right-wing lawyer, telling a hospital official over the phone that they would be 'guilty of murder' if they refuse to release her.
During another incident, which was caught on video, one of Wolski's supporters made a failed attempt to enter the hospital to perform a welfare check on her.
AMITA Health released a statement last week, saying that the hospital's first priority 'is the health and safety of our patients. Our physicians and clinicians follow the full guidance of the FDA and the CDC in the treatment of COVID-19.'
The National Institutes of Health's COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel has determined there is insufficient data to recommend Ivermectin for treatment of any viral infections.
The group The People's Bridge sent out a flyer claiming a doctor who initially agreed to give Wolski Ivermectin backtracked because the hospital sided with public health experts and saying that Wolski had been hospitalized for two weeks with 'Covid pneumonia.'
Wood, one of the attorneys who filed lawsuits in favor of former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, is one of the people behind the movement, which claimed that Wolski had a legal right to try the Ivermectin prescription.
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