The problem with this is that in these people's minds, if <insert whatever magical cure to covid they know works> doesn't work, it's always some other factor than the cure itself that is causing it to not work. It doesn't prove to these people that those things don't actually work.
If the hospital administers the 10,000mg of Vitamin C, which won't work (according to what we know from medical experts), when the patient dies his family would just claim that the hospital didn't give him the right dosage, or they should've administered the vitamin C earlier, or the hospital claims that they administered the vitamin C but really didn't administer anythiung, or what they administered was not the right vitamin C / was not vitamin C at all. It doesn't cross these people's minds that maybe vitamin C doesn't work. Swap vitamin C with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or whatever other covid cure flavour of the month it currently is.
Here is a paper from one such institution published in a highly respected journal (Breast Journal) that found a significant increase in the median survival rate for women with metastatic breast cancer.
Because that takes time away from providing actual medical help. Think of it like a DDoS, all the cranks lining up for their dose of <not even a placebo> taking up the time of actual Doctors, nurses, and other essential staff who chose jobs to try and actually help people.
Imagine being a trained Doctor and spending your day performing worthless procedures on those who refuse to take the advice it took the Doctor years to earn the right to provide.
I would really appreciate it if someone would explain to me what the reasoning is for this not happening. Like most people here, I'm an educated professional, and I've watched hundreds of hours of video from actual doctors about the pandemic, and I still do not understand the reason.
One harm is that it would help legitimize the drug as a COVID treatment, when science shows otherwise.
Put simply, the harm is that the already harmful misinformation that ivermectin helps would become even more pervasive. The only way out of this pandemic is _towards_ reason, not away.
I guess you haven't been to the rural US recently. Not only is that plausible but its very likely. Check some of the social media posts on r/hermancainaward
If a doctor prescribes something without a reasonable (proven would be nice) expectation of a positive effect on the patient, and the patient dies, the doctor is at a minimum a target for a malpractice lawsuit, and at most liable for murder charges.
Also, there have been court cases recently where courts have ordered doctors to give alternative treatments, so it seems that the legal liability problem does not cover all cases.