Posted on 04/11/2020 6:42:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The medical director at a Texas City nursing home says some COVID-19 patients on an unproven drug are showing signs of improvement and that he’s prescribed it to another dozen patients.
Dr. Robin Armstrong said the first group of nine patients at The Resort at Texas City — where 56 residents and employees have tested positive for the disease — finished their five-day treatment with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine on Wednesday and are stable.
“It seems like the patients are maintaining pretty steady and not having any difficulty, so that’s good,” Armstrong said, though he added that he can’t determine how much their improvement is attributable to the drug. “They seem to be getting better … We're just continuing to monitor them.”
None of their respiratory problems have grown more severe, Armstrong said, addressing one of the most serious complications of the virus.
As he expands the number of patients in the treatment group from 27 to 39, Armstrong continues to prescribe the medication after conversations with only the patients and without notifying families, which he says is not necessary and too time-consuming.
“If I had to call all the families for every medicine that I started on a patient, I wouldn’t be treating any patients at all; I would just be talking to families all the time,” Armstrong said.
But around him, a fierce debate has emerged. The use of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus patients has drawn controversy globally as the medical community and public debate the ethics of trying out a medication before significant research is available — and in the case of elderly patients such as those in the Texas City nursing home, on a population that is statistically more vulnerable to the virus.
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Pshaw! Just some anecdotes! Nothing to see here.......
Democrats want to kill black folks!
Scream this to the HIGHEST ROOFTOPS!!
Dr. Robin Armstrong is a hero.
Its fascinating, I’m glanced at a few LW sites, and they are very much strong about their opinions of this hydroxychloroquine. They have said they will not take the snake oil medicine. My thoughts on this is, well, they’re gonna die if they get COVID 19. Plain and simple. So if I were say, Biden, I would be telling my followers to refused an, not just the hydroxychloroquine, any medication that Trump of Fauci recommends. After all, it will be helpful in November when there is less of them. They would ne dead, because their arrogance and bigotry killed them for not taking the medicine.
CNN now will bring Gupta , or another flake of a guest to denounce this.
The good doctor should add zinc to the hydroxyCQ for his patients. See this informative thread:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3831654/posts
You forget. Being dead does not hamper ‘rats from voting.
I’m beginning to wonder about this. Every last fakenews article highlights the “controversial” nature of this treatment. But doctors are using it everywhere, there is huge global demand, and it is now the preferred treatment by at least one medical school (IIRC Yale, was on FR recently).
Could it be that the “controversy” is only in the twisted minds of the TDS-afflicted fakenews media? And that while they are yammering, doctors around the world are quietly using the stuff?
Unproven? With thousands of patients world wide recovering under the HCQ+Zinc protocol, when does this drug become "proven?"
As far as I know, for evidence to prove a material fact, it must be adjudicated in a court of law. Such as, when was aspirin proven to alleviate headaches?
Could it be that the “controversy” is only in the twisted minds of the TDS-afflicted fakenews media? And that while they are yammering, doctors around the world are quietly using the stuff?
Mmm, could be!
I find this “anecdotal” story especially heartening as obviously nursing home patients are among the most medically frail. With this simple, cheap medication they are stabilized and getting better. All of them! I’d say that’s a pretty good “anecdote”.
That is one sick article. The writer and the paper’s editors should be ashamed of themselves.
The writer stresses ALL of the potential risks and problems and NONE of the benefits (patients not getting sicker, while others are dying) No questions as to how they’re really doing, or what percentage of the patients are now on HCQ, or dosage. Not even a single anecdote about a patient doing better (and you know writers love those!)
No, all the writer stresses is the risk to the facility and the doctor. The potential lack of consent, the families not knowing what’s happening, the potential side effects, etc. It’s like the writer’s purpose is to convince other doctors not to attempt this, or they will be subjected to the same treatment.
TDS is going to get a lot of people killed if HCQ works as well as it now appears to work. Unfortunately, most will be innocent bystanders.
Well, the article is not all that bad. It did mention the good doctor saying that his patients are getting better.
No, it was that bad.
Look at it this way. They have people dying. This might be an effective treatment. They have a doctor who is trying to tell them exactly that, else why would he tell them he’s encouraged enough to continue to put more patients on it.
So, instead of following up on what would be outstanding news, the writer spends the bulk of the article scaring the hell out of any other doctor or medical facility that wants to try it. Which was exactly the TDS-afflicted writer’s goal. You can count on it.
TDS can be fatal. Unfortunately, many of the fatalities are now among innocent bystanders. I am absolutely serious about that. They are now killing people with their politically-biased coverage.
And they have the nerve to talk about the dangers of the medication. Note that they have yet to find one patient who expired from those risks. If they had one, we’d certainly hear about it, just like the entire world now knows about the idiots who took a fish tank product.
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