New Jersey doctor gives update on use of hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir on coronavirus patients

Fox News ^ | 03/30/2020 | Talia Kaplan

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The chief physician executive at Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey discussed on “Fox & Friends” how drugs meant to treat other conditions are now being used to help treat COVID-19 patients.

“Anything that might work, it's nice to get out there,” Dr. Daniel Varga said on Monday. “It's great to use it in emergency situations, use it for compassionate use. Even better to get it out in clinical trials.”

Varga made the comments responding to a report where two coronavirus patients in New York City were moved out of the intensive care unit after taking an experimental drug typically used to treat HIV and breast cancer. The patients went from being on ventilators in the ICU to a regular hospital in a matter of days, The Daily Mail reported. Studies reportedly suggest the drug, leronlimab, calms the overly aggressive immune response that could lead to pneumonia and even death.

“I don't know the drug personally, but the studies we're seeing is that, like several drugs we’re trying to use right now in COVID-19, it works predominantly by toning down the immune response that the virus participates in the lung so that the lung doesn't get injured,” Varga said.

On Monday, Dr. Varga described “three big buckets of clinical innovation” during the coronavirus outbreak.

He said the first bucket is figuring out how to optimize standard care.

“One of the things we’re seeing in people who have to get ventilated because of COVID-19 is this use of what’s known as prone ventilation, where you actually lay the patient on their belly while they are ventilated,” Varga said. “What it tends to do is lets the lungs expand more easily so you can get more oxygen down into the lungs and that's been a really big asset

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Look at my comment #36. Recommendations 1. Where I suggest taking 1 gram in the morning and 1 gram in the evening. This is based on the idea that animals our size produce 2 to 4 grams of C a day. If that amount gives you burning urine or acid farts, then try 500 mg. morning and evening. If you read the links provided at #36 you will learn a lot. Each of us has individual needs, and they change with stress and illness. I have allergies: house dust, cool weather molds, cigarette smoke, ragweed. I have been taking 3 to 6 grams a day for over 45 years. When my nose gets stuffy I take 500 mg. or a gram or 2 and the nose opens up in a few minutes.

The link below has a lot of varied information at “Daily requirement.” Linus Pauling recommended a lot. Now that he is dead I think his Institute has been forced to lower its recommendations a lot. Politics and Big Pharma in action probably.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C

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RE: Where I suggest taking 1 gram in the morning and 1 gram in the evening

That’s 2000 mg. everyday !! Don’t you get diahrea from taking that much Vitamin C? I only take half of that dosage daily.

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““One of the things we’re seeing in people who have to get ventilated because of COVID-19 is this use of what’s known as prone ventilation, where you actually lay the patient on their belly while they are ventilated,” Varga said. “What it tends to do is lets the lungs expand more easily so you can get more oxygen down into the lungs and that’s been a really big asset” that is exactly what are ICU is doing...