Posted on 03/25/2020 12:25:48 AM PDT by familyop
Genny Allard detailed her son's condition and her fight to secure the drug remdesivir...While it has been widely reported that the elderly population and those with underlying medical issues are at greater risk than the younger population when it comes to the coronavirus, recent reports show a higher rate of hospitalizations between the ages of 20 and 54. "Jack is the healthiest person I know," his mother said. "He's not overweight, he exercises weekly, an all-American lacrosse player at Bates. He continues to play lacrosse. Jack has nothing. He's not asthmatic, he's completely healthy.
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Why are they trying to get Remdesivir, an experimental medication?
Had he been on Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin?
It’s anecdotal and does not work. So said the Pharisee.
You forgot to mention zinc sulfate prevents virus replication in the cell.
“Why are they trying to get Remdesivir,...”
Apparently this is used when the person is ‘extremely’ sick it is kind of the ‘end of the road treatment’. Heard this on one of the Dr. Oz segments.
The first person diagnosed in the USA (Washington State) was treated with Remdesivir and improved greatly.
“Dr. George Diaz: About a week into his course he got worse developed pneumonia. At that point given the reports we had gotten out of China… At that point we elected to give him… the experimental Remdesivir, antiviral medication. And within 24 hours he improved significantly. This was quite encouraging and he improved and thereafter remained without fever and felt much better. Over the next few days he improved to where we thought he could be discharged at home under the care of the local health district.”
Nobody’s getting remdesivir except in a clinical trial for a while.
However - the randomization is 5 days vs. 10 days (and there is a fair bit of liver toxicity, so duration is a fair question), no placebo.
The problem is, the testing sites are going to be overwhelmed with sick patients in a matter of days, and protecting trial staff so they can keep working is going to be very difficult.
Thanx for the info.
My son has terminal brain cancer.. He was given the option to try some experimental drugs. I think this is the one he is on. A thousand bucks a day.
How horrible for him and your family. Just said a prayer for him — along with PDJT and Rush.
I’m so very sorry to hear about your son.
Prayers for your son.
Shelterguy
https://www.burzynskiclinic.com/
https://riordanclinic.org/what-we-do/high-dose-iv-vitamin-c/
Does he vape? Does he smoke pot?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3828191/posts?page=407
Not sure if any of this applies, but above is a link to some doctor talking about what they are seeing, what to do, and what not to do.
About the 6th paragraph from the end he says:
Proning vented patients significantly helps oxygenation. Even self proning the ones on nasal cannula helps.
Vent settings- Usual ARDS stuff, low volume, permissive hypercapnia, etc. Except for Peep of 5 will not do. Start at 14 and you may go up to 25 if needed.
Do not use Bipap- it does not work well and is a significant exposure risk with high levels of aerosolized virus to you and your staff. Even after a cough or sneeze this virus can aerosolize up to 3 hours.
The same goes for nebulizer treatments. Use MDI. you can give 8-10 puffs at one time of an albuterol MDI. Use only if wheezing which isn’t often with covid 19. If you have to give a nebulizer must be in a negative pressure room; and if you can, instruct the patient on how to start it after you leave the room.
Do not use steroids, it makes this worse. Push out to your urgent cares to stop their usual practice of steroid shots for their URI/bronchitis.
oops - I thought this was the thread and person that had discussed using their bipap machine at home. Sorry! Still lots of good information in the thread.
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