Posted on 04/07/2020 11:02:55 AM PDT by rintintin
A Michigan state lawmaker infected with COVID-19 is crediting the controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with saving her life — saying she felt better within a few hours of taking her prescription.
Democratic state Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit told FOX News’ “The Ingraham Angle” Monday that she went into home quarantine on March 12, the day she last attended a session at the State House in Lansing, and her condition only got worse from there.
“It took the longest [time] for me to actually be able to get an appointment and getting with my doctor, which was the 18th of March, and then actually getting the COVID test,” Whitsett said on the program.
She initially thought she’d contracted a bout of pneumonia and was prescribed the antibiotic amoxicillin.
But then on March 31, she tested positive for COVID-19. By then, she said, her condition had “just plummeted.”
“It went from the headaches being severe to fluid building up in my lungs, to sweats breaking out to the cough and my breathing being labored,” Whitsett said. “It all happened in a matter of hours.”
At the hospital, Whitsett learned that the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, under Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, had issued a state order prohibiting the use of hydroxychloroquine. Though that order was retracted several days later, at the time, Whitsett struggled to get her hands on the medication.
“I did have a difficult time, even that day, obtaining the medication because of an order that was put down in my state,” she said on the program. “And it was on that day, so you can imagine how terrified I was that I had to beg and plead and go through a whole lot to try to get the medication.”
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Never to be told on the national news....
I don’t know if I really believe it works. Even if it does nothing there is an 80% chance you’ll recover so anecdotal evidence is pretty useless. However it should be available to those who want to use it and the thing this lady said that I thought was most interesting was that if Trump had not said something it would not even be available.
Heard her last night on Laura’s show..very glad to hear she is doing much better..guess the commie media didnt want this story to get out so now they are on to WOW I guess Trump is gonna make money off of the drug that has been in this country for over 50 yrs, did ya hear he might make 99 bucks off of it LOL WOW 99 bucks, holy cow that’s a lot of dough/sarc
HOORAY Democratic state Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit. Life / health BUMP! Alternatives to the narrative ALERT.
Look hpw the story was written. No mention of Trump.
They will tell the story this way.
It’s not controversial, its just that the left makes it into a controversy.
“Never to be told on the national news....”
And Rep. Whitsett has just killed her career as a Democrat.
Please, please, please let Biden nominate Whitmer to be VP. November would be a bigger landslide that the Himalayas falling into the Indian Ocean
OH, but my local rag said that Trump “is hawking” the drug. I hope that these people who trash Trump don’t have the drug available to them when they need it.
I’d say the fact that it’s no longer a medical question but a political controversy is highly indicative that there is substance in the claims that it works.
But the Dem governor would have let you die.
The asymptomatic or those with mild symptoms will mostly get better without intervention. Those that need the drug don’t get better in a matter of hours without it.
“It took the longest [time] for me to actually be able to get an appointment and getting with my doctor, which was the 18th of March,
OBAMA CARE
At the hospital, Whitsett learned that the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, under Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, had issued a state order prohibiting the use of hydroxychloroquine
DEMOCRAT trying to make the situation worse to blame it on TRUMP.
crediting the controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with saving her life — saying she felt better within a few hours of taking her prescription.
AVAILABLE THANKS TO TRUMP. He wants to help everyone. Even hate filled Democrats.
Even if it does nothing there is an 80% chance you’ll recover...
So there is a 20% death rate?
Anyway this drug should be OTC it has already been deemed safe
by the FDA.
OH, but my local rag said that Trump “is hawking” the drug.“
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