Minnesota Covid patient at center of legal fight to keep him on ventilator dies in Texas hospital

[RandySF]

An unvaccinated Covid-19 patient from Minnesota — at the center of a court battle over whether to turn off life support machines — has died in Texas, officials said Monday.

A Minnesota judge issued the temporary restraining order this month barring doctors at Mercy Hospital, in Coon Rapids just north of Minneapolis, from removing the man, Scott Quiner, from a ventilator.

Quiner's family had sued, saying doctors had declined to provide a treatment requested by his wife and were planning to remove him from life support systems.

Quiner, 55, of Buffalo, Minnesota, was then transferred to a hospital in Houston, where he died, the family's attorney Marjorie Holsten said.

"He passed away Saturday morning. It was tough," Holsten said.





https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minnesota-covid-patient-center-legal-fight-keep-ventilator-dies-texas-rcna13368?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

[SunSeeker]

1. Another Darwin Award recipient. nt

[samplegirl]

2. No one was

surprised!

[Celerity]

3. dirt nap 4 dum-dum

[sop]

4. The "treatment requested by his wife," denied by the doctors in Minnesota, was likely Ivermectin.

Article doesn't mention it, but the Texas hospital may have been giving him the horse dewormer when he died.

[Blue Owl]

6. He might not be wormin', but now he's with Herman

[sop]

7. Love it.

[Hortensis]

5. He'd been maintained on life support since late fall, and

the Coon Rapids hospital was finally removing him legally from life support when the temporary court order was issued. Supposedly the TX hospital was "treating" him by resuming hydration and nutrition and lowering sedation and the oxygen setting on his ventilator when he died, as no doubt expected.

He was only 55, unvaccinated, and his wife fought for his life when he couldn't, appeared on TV, opened a GoFundMe, and now requests privacy to grieve.

I don't see anything saying ivermectin was part of this. It seems to be a case of family resisting removing ventilator support at end of life to allow a patient to die. The judge's order would have required the hospital to keep him on life support for another month. Transferring him to a hospital that would take him freed up the MN hospital's resources for other very ill patients.

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. I was searching for updates on Friday and Saturday

Quiner's wife appeared on wingnut podcasts earlier in the week blaming everyone but their antivaxx views for her husband's condition.

Then after that, complete radio silence. Didn't seem Quiner made any improvement.

Too bad they had to waste hospital resources for what appeared to be a lost cause.

[dalton99a]

9. So the horse med didn't work.