To Xiden:
Please die very quickly and horribly.
Signed,
America
Every mainstream news article on the topic says he’s doing fine, improving, thank goodness for vaccines, treatments, etc.
Get this guy the best doctors and medication. We need him for 2024.
What Are the Risks of COVID and Treatments Available to President Biden?
An infectious disease doctor explains what Biden’s medical team will be doing to treat the President’s case of COVID:
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
On July 21, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden said he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing mild symptoms. In a letter to the public, Biden’s doctor explained that the president had a slight runny nose, some fatigue and the occasional dry cough, and that Biden had already begun taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid. Patrick Jackson, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, explains the risks that someone like Biden faces from a bout of COVID-19 and the treatments available.
1. What are the important risk factors for Biden?
The most important risk factor for developing severe COVID-19 is age. If you are 79 years old when you become infected with COVID-19, like President Biden, you are eight times more likely to become hospitalized and 140 times more likely to die compared with someone who gets COVID-19 at age 20. Preexisting health conditions – like obesity, cancer and chronic kidney or lung disease – also increase the risk of severe illness. But Biden is reported to be fairly healthy.
Fortunately, preexisting immunity from vaccination or from a previous episode of COVID-19 is highly protective against severe disease. Researchers only have limited data on the BA.5 variant that is responsible for most recent COVID-19 cases in the U.S. – and likely Biden’s, too – but the level of protection from vaccines is likely similar to that of the previous strains BA.1 and BA.2. While the BA.1 and BA.2 omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 were very adept at infecting people who are vaccinated and boosted, the data shows that prior immunity from vaccines provides strong protection against severe or fatal disease. During the first omicron wave in California, COVID-19 patients who did not have immunity from vaccination or previous infection were much more likely to be hospitalized, be admitted into an intensive care unit or die compared with people who were vaccinated and boosted.
2. What is the first line of treatment for someone like Biden, and why?
Current best medical practice is to give antiviral treatments to patients who have recently developed mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms and are at higher risk of severe illness. The goal of antivirals is to stop the virus from replicating in the body in order to prevent hospitalization or death.
Currently there are four antiviral drugs available in the U.S. for the treatment of COVID-19 in outpatients: nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, better known by the brand name Paxlovid, remdesivir, bebtelovimab and molnupiravir. The best drug for a particular patient depends on preexisting health conditions, accessibility and drug interactions with other medications. Paxlovid is widely used because it was shown to be highly effective in a clinical trial and is available in pill form.
3. How does Paxlovid work, and what are its shortcomings?
Paxlovid is an oral antiviral drug that is used to treat some patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 who do not require hospitalization. Paxlovid is a combination of two medications. One is nirmatrelvir, a drug that works by disrupting the coronavirus’ ability to make functioning proteins. The other is ritonavir, an HIV drug that boosts the level of nirmatrelvir in the blood by blocking an enzyme in the liver that breaks down nirmatrelvir.
A clinical trial of Paxlovid showed that the drug significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization or death when given to infected patients within five days of their first COVID-19 symptoms. This trial looked at Paxlovid given to people who had no prior immunity to COVID-19 from vaccines or previous infection. The effectiveness of Paxlovid in the treatment of patients who have preexisting immunity from vaccination or prior infection is less clear, though some studies suggest that older vaccinated patients may still benefit from the drug. Paxlovid has not been found to reduce symptoms or make patients feel better more quickly.
Paxlovid is not a panacea. It cannot be used for some patients who have significant kidney or liver problems, and it interacts negatively with a large number of other medications. Some patients cannot take Paxlovid because of the other drugs they use, but physicians can sometimes manage these interactions.
For example, Biden is reportedly taking a blood thinner called apixaban. This drug interacts negatively with Paxlovid. It is likely Biden’s doctor has instructed him to reduce his dose of apixaban or stop it briefly while on Paxlovid.
4. What will Biden’s health care team be on the lookout for?
Biden’s doctors will be monitoring his symptoms and checking his blood oxygen level. If Biden’s symptoms – like cough, shortness of breath or fever – worsen or he needs supplemental oxygen, it is possible he would be hospitalized where he may get treated with additional drugs, including steroids.
Some patients experience an initial improvement followed by a “rebound” of their COVID-19 symptoms. It is not clear how often rebounds happen or if they are associated with COVID-19 treatment. Rebounds appear to be generally mild and not associated with hospitalization or death, though they can prolong the required period of isolation.
It is still too early to tell how mild or severe Biden’s bout of COVID-19 will be. With most mild cases only lasting around a week, the U.S. should only need to wait a few days to get a sense of what kind of fight the president is facing.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S):
Patrick Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia.
Jill Biden reading up on Edith Wilson term in office.
Midterm.
wy69
Alex Jones has been saying they need to get rid of Biden and install Cameltoe before the end of this term so they have the votes to make Newsom VP.
Goodbye, Pedo Joe
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in
And I would’ve liked to have known you
But I was just a dreg
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
covid coordinator- LOL
https://babylonbee.com/news/brutal-biden-contracts-covid-just-one-day-after-miraculous-recovery-from-cancer
WTH are “respiratory lines”?
Does the author even know?
Does anyone know?
My best friend is a nurse and is always using medical terms like I know what she is talking about. However, I don’t ever recall “respiratory lines” being a thing.
What the heck is a “respiratory line”? What does a normal one look like? How do you know if you have an abnormal one?
Saying he had cancer. Then we get the covid thang.
“I have never wished a man dead but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
“No. I did not attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter saying I approved it.”
I’ll pray he has a nice one and I live to see it.
Yes. I am taking the low road. I intend to. I have no good will in me for these miscreants and their kind.
Pneumonia, the old man’s friend.
” That’s a shame!”
We need to last until mid January so the rats won’t be able to rubber stamp the VP pick
Was this typed or spoken, “respiratory lines”? Maybe “respiratory illness” with spelling errors?
When you’re old, it takes longer to recover from illness.
When you’re suffering from dementia, a disease that you don’t recover from, you only work to slow the advancement of, little changes in health like a mild cold or a bicycle fall can have an outsized effect of allowing the disease to progress because you take longer to recover and you switch up your routine, maybe sleep gets disrupted for a few days and boom... the dementia creeps forward a little bit more.
The news conference where the doctor talked about Joe eating all the food on his plate... that’s not a thing a doctor says unless somewhere in their mind they are thinking that “loss of appetite” is a concern. Is loss of appetite a covid concern? Sure, a little bit, but that would be a temporary thing, and he’sbeing constantly tended to by medical staff. Is loss of appetite a dementia concern? Yes, very much.
They’re already figuring out the best day/time to announce the death of JoJo.