Posted on 03/26/2020 7:20:26 PM PDT by bitt
The push in the U.S. pandemic epicenter follows the president’s declaration that he ‘feels good’ about compounds with unproven efficacy, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
New York is moving at unprecedented speed and scale in a human experiment to distribute tens of thousands of doses of anti-malarial drugs to seriously ill patients, spurred by political leaders including President Trump to try a treatment that is not proved to be effective against the coronavirus.
With no proven treatment for the coronavirus, and infections in New York topping 30,000, health experts say the Food and Drug Administration has moved with uncommon speed to authorize New York’s sweeping plan to distribute the drugs through hospital networks.
Planning for such a complex initiative would ordinarily take up to nine months, those experts say. In New York, the U.S. epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic, that timeline has been compressed into three days.
The effort has raised concerns among health experts about safety risks — including the danger of fatal heart arrhythmia and vision loss associated with the drugs — and of raising false hopes in the American public. But Trump’s direct intervention into complex medical issues, as well as New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s embrace of the strategy, has generated popular excitement about the drugs.
The attention by political leaders also has contributed to runs on supply and hoarding, which New York and other states have tried to block with executive orders restricting prescriptions.
New York will use three medications — hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin — contributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Amneal Pharmaceuticals, the state said. The first wave of patients will receive hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
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Totally,,
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saw a segment about treatment in New Orleans -
some with hydro and zpac
some with just hydro
some with giving early to people with compromised health
some with very serious illness/
Sloe Joe wins primary, names Cuomo as his running mate, then bows out for health reasons, Cuomo ascends to presidential candidate, names Warren as his veep. Bernie gets another house on a beach of his choice.
Cornuto-Cazzo ‘20
Cuomo ascends to presidential candidate, names Warren as his veep.
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never gonna happen.
bad enough Cuomo’s NY accent but the screeching shaking scolding school teacher next to him????
argh!
More likely Cuomo would ask Romney to join his ticket in a Coalition for National Unity.
Got any better ideas Wa Compost? Critics save lives— errr I mean lies.
See my post @ #34
TGKC, why do say that? Since when do rules matter for Democrats?
[speaking of Cuomo] ... He throws in national single payer for the soon to be hundreds of thousands with hospital debt due to CV and he will win the nomination easily and probably the November election if this goes to a million infected and 6 months of sickness.
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Glad you weren’t with George Washington crossing the Delaware with his troops— you might have convinced him to turn back.
100%
For Democrats only, they should be administered via “non-traditional” routes.
The only question I have is dosage. Chloroquine in an anti-malarial setting is typically 500mg per week whereas dosages quoted for Corona seem to be around 600mg per day.
It certainly looks very promising. Hope it works out.
Sure they can. They can do anything they want. They substituted Lautenberg for Bob Torricelli at the last minute, after the latter imploded in a campaign donor scandal.
The only rule they have to follow is "we can't lose."
Trump has better experts.
They are evil.
Just wondering how they are going to walk it back when it is successful.
Biden said he would select a woman as VP, so Cuomo will have to at least change his pronouns to fool the idiot Rats.
Just wondering how they are going to walk it back when it is successful.
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Exactly what they always do. Pretend it never happened.
This writer is not only insane but incompetent. Hasn’t he read the many reports from doctors who are using various combinations of the cited drugs to treat SUCCESSFULLY their coronavirus patients?
Guess the clown doesn’t read those great articles/doctors’ columns here at FreeRepublic.
And “No”, Trump did not order the use of the chemicals mentioned in the various reports. He commented that he hoped that if they were possible solutions, the doctors would use them carefully to test them in a now “real world” epidemic.
The writer is just another Trump-Hater in the Washington Post’s pantheon of the insane posing as journalists.
PS: If you have run out of Toilet Paper, try old editions of the Wash. Post and New York Times. Cut them into 5-6 inch squares (Cheryl Chrowe supersized) and use them with a smile on your face, a clean butt, and the knowledge that you finally found a good use for the WP.
As the Reverend Al “Charlatan” Sharpton would say, “Wipe as we much. Flush as we much”.
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