The woman, Erika Quintero-Sherry, has been trying to get Mount Sinai West Hospital to administer ivermectin to her husband, Benjamin Chernyavsky, who has been in critical condition since being hospitalized for COVID last month.

Ivermectin has been shown to improve the condition of COVID patients by up to 67 percent and has repeatedly saved the lives of individuals already on their death bed. However, hospitals still refuse to administer the drug.

Chernyavsky, 60, has been in a medically induced coma and reportedly has a less than 20 percent chance of surviving. Even given this grave statistic, the hospital is still refusing to administer ivermectin to save his life.

His daughter said they wanted to try ivermectin because the most important thing for them is to do anything to help save his life.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lynn Kotler said she would not grant the emergency request to force the hospital staff to administer the drug based on "paltry" evidence and going against the treating doctor's recommendations.