Posted on 03/29/2020 4:21:27 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
QUEENS — Brian Zupanick, who marked his 39th birthday alone Sunday, couldn’t believe his ears when a doctor called him from Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan this weekend.
The doctor had some positive news about his long-time partner, John Giarratano, who’d been placed on a ventilator for 13 days, after COVID-19 virus invaded Giarratano’s lungs.
“He’s off the ventilator,” Brian Zupanick told PIX11 with jubilation, as we FaceTimed him to discuss his good piece of news. “I couldn’t ask for a better present, honestly.”
Giarratano—a 42-year-old, freelance TV producer—was the first COVID-19 patient we profiled early last weekend.
His partner, Brian, was desperate to get him the best treatment available.
Giarratano had driven himself to the Mount Sinai affiliate in Oceanside, Long Island on Friday, March 13, a week after he first developed a fever.
He had no underlying medical conditions, yet by very early Sunday, March 15, he was being intubated and placed on a ventilator to breathe.
Giarratano’s COVID-19 test results were very delayed, but the president of Mt. Sinai and an infectious disease doctor were able to get Giarratano on the experimental treatment, Remdesivir—before it became almost impossible to access, because of overwhelming demand.
After the initial treatments with Remdesivir, Giarratano was stable enough for transfer to the flagship Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where his partner told us Giarratano received another experimental drug, Hydroxychloroquine.
“Something worked obviously, because he really wasn’t doing well,” Zupanick said.
“In the last four days, he started moving in a positive direction,” Zupanick said. “It was absolutely a miracle. I feel as though it was divine intervention from the very beginning.”
“I believe in God, and I believe God has answered my prayers. I really, truly do,” Zupanick told PIX11. “Because it was bad.”
Zupanick is profusely thanking the doctors at both Mt. Sinai hospitals for taking such good care of his partner.
“They’re actually quite happy and surprised with how well he’s done,” Zupanick said. “I want to see him!”
Great news.
He’s lucky given the stats for Vent patients.
This is not the time for gay bashing. We are all sinners.
Chloroqueen to the rescue. Now they can resume faggotry.
Any gay person who has or had HIV has a compromised immune system which would put them in the high risk category.
“This is the politically correct pandemic. The fact that this young patient is gay is relevant. To understand just who is susceptible to develop serious disease or die from this virus requires a dispassionate evaluation of the data. It is necessary to tabulate the race, age, underlying medical conditions, habits, medications used and vaccination history of those who do or don’t become infected, do or don’t become seriously ill, do or don’t die. The CDC and WHO have the data but for reasons best known by them have not made it public.”
I believe this statement is absolutely correct. We need to see this data to evaluate risk.
good! now he can choke on a dick!
We will never be allowed to see clean source data on this. Like Epstein, the facts will magically be erased.
How trite...
95% of the homos are hiv-positive and many are taking viral suppressant drugs courtesy of Medicare...
95% of the homos are hiv-positive and many are taking viral suppressant drugs courtesy of Medicare...
Classic Ann...tells it like it is!
That’s not what the drs, CDC and NIH are reporting. The mucous builds-up so fast from the scarring, that the victim drowns in it, allowing no air into the lungs, during the illness. There is no “after”, in many, many cases.
I heard interviews w/ drs who said they’d never seen such scarring in younger people’s lungs, and some were young children.
True, many don’t present such symptoms, but those with scarring and concurrent mucous build-up, do, and die.
I’m a 55yr smoker, and my lungs are clear as saran wrap. Go figure. It depends on the person.
JoSixChip wrote:
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“According to Trump’s briefing today, I think he said that 1000 people in NY have been on this Rx for two days.”
Dramatically fewer deaths in NY today.”
Good news!
“Partner”.
If your lungs get to resemble the x rays you posted, you are not likely to survive or will have debilitating respiratory chronic impairment if you do. If you develop fever and cough in NYC, a presumptive diagnosis of COVID-19 is being made and most physicians are prescribing Hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax even before shortness of breath develops. Absent a safe and effective vaccine that very well may be the best approach knowing what is currently known. These governors would do more good making hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax readily available to physicians and their patients than constantly clamoring for money and respirators.
You’re 100% right.
Oh. A homo caught the covid? Who’d a thunk?
Are you his doctor? Nothing you said was in the article.
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