In the ongoing battle against the use of ivermectin to combat covid, Dr. John Witcher was fired from Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi, for administering the controversial drug to patients.

According to Newsweek, Witcher is the founder of a group of physicians who are against vaccine mandates. Witcher said he was asked to leave his post in the Emergency Room of Baptist Memorial Hospital after the doctor took three patients being treated for covid off remdesivir and then administered ivermectin. Remdesivir is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ivermectin is not. “I was aware I was going against the hospital policy on ivermectin but still felt like, as the treating physician of these patients, that I had that option,” Witcher said. A spokesperson for the hospital said Witcher is not an employee of the Baptist Healthcare System, but an independent doctor on contract with the hospital. The doctor was in the second year of a three-year contract.

The local paper, the Biloxi Sun Herald, said Witcher’s medical license was once revoked, and he is a leader of a group of nine doctors called Mississippi Against Mandates. The group is against forced vaccination for hospital employees. The article in the Sun Herald says the group of doctors has been distributing covid misinformation throughout Mississippi. Less than one half of Mississippi’s population is vaccinated. According to The New York Times, there have been over five hundred thousand cases of covid in Mississippi and over ten thousand deaths.

Dr. John Witcher’s medical license was revoked after an investigation by the Mississippi Board of Licensure. The board claimed Witcher had over a decade of misconduct and concluded he was a “danger to society.”

TrialSiteNews has done many articles on the success of ivermectin in the treatment of covid. In many cases, ivermectin has saved lives. Yet, the continued excuse for not using the drug has been there’s not enough “research.”

In Dr. Witcher’s case, it appears ivermectin wasn’t the issue, but the doctor’s history was.