People in US sue for compensation for dangerous Covid-19 treatment
Covid-19 presents the first serious test of the Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program overseen by the US health department
11 March 2021 - 17:03
Delaware, US — In March 2020, Steve Cicala took his wife, Susan, to the emergency room at Clara Maass Medical Center in New Jersey to treat a worsening cough and fever, unaware she had Covid-19.
As her breathing and blood pressure deteriorated, she was given azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine and put on a ventilator. Eleven days after being admitted to the same hospital where she had worked for years as a nurse, Susan went into cardiac arrest and died at age 60...
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