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Posted on 03/28/2020 9:55:31 AM PDT by nwrep
LEBANON, Oregon — A veterans’ home in Lebanon, Oregon, has been a hot bed for the spread of COVID-19.
Of the 151 people who live at Edward C. Allworth Oregon Veterans’ Home, 14 tested positive for COVID-19 and one of them died from it early Sunday morning.
The death was the fifth in Oregon connected to COVID-19. There have now been a total of 10 deaths.
In an effort to control the outbreak at the veterans' home, Dr. Rob Richardson, one of the medical directors, is using a treatment combination of hydroxychloroquine, known by its brand name of Plaquenil, and antibiotic azithromycin, commonly referred to as Zithromax Z-Pak, to treat those who have tested positive for the virus.
So far, he has used the combination on eight out of 14 symptomatic patients. All residents at the veterans' home that have contracted COVID-19 are considered high-risk because they are older than 60 and have underlying medical conditions. Dr. Richardson says he didn't use the drug combination as an initial treatment on less severe patients at first, but began doing so as more research emerged around its use in mild to moderately symptomatic patients at high risk.
“I’m seeing improvement within 24 to 48 hours but I can’t tell you whether that’s the course of the disease - I don’t have a control arm - or whether it’s the effect of the drug,” Dr. Richardson said.
“I don’t want people to rely on these and say this is going to be the saver of all medications. We don’t know that yet and it may be an effective treatment and it may turn out that it shows that it is no better than a placebo in the outcomes. But so far in the eight patients I’ve treated with it, out of our 14 symptomatic patients, I have not seen an adverse outcome and that would be the reason I would stop using it, if I thought the risk outweighed the potential benefits," Richardson said.
But Dr. Richardson hopes, as he works to control the virus in the facility, that he won’t have to continue to administer these drugs because he doesn’t want to take them away from those who need them on a daily basis.
On Wednesday, the Oregon Board of Pharmacy issued a rule for prescriptions that will be in effect until the public health crisis is over.
Prescriptions for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine can only be dispensed for the following conditions: If the prescription is part of therapy started before March 8.
The prescriber gave a diagnosis code based on clinical findings for which the medication is indicated. If the prescription is written for a COVID-19 infection. The patient is hospitalized with a positive test result.
It cannot possibly work.
After all, Trump hinted that it might be a good thing, but our far more “eddikated” MSM (journalism degrees & all) just KNEW that that couldn’t possibly work. After all, they learned all about medicine in one three minute section of the jokes they called journalism classes.
/s
the board is out of line
A doctor friend of mine is using them on his patients who have symptoms of the virus. He says doctors have known about its efficacy for a long time.
Lord I hope they find something to start treating it effectively. I’m in no panic about corona virus but I am panicking because of what is happening.
The Democrats and their propaganda arm (media) are getting what they want. If this keeps up the economy will falter and hurt Trump’s chances, which is what this is about anyway.
I hope we can start driving it down before long. People should go out and buy lots of things after a while and give the economy a spurt.
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It doesn’t work -— China says so. But, China says they are making lots of a drug from an old (USA) patent that does work that they will be glad to sell us. Sarc!!!
Good thing this doc isn’t in Wisconsin....
Michigan governor threatens doctors who prescribe hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
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Why the USA EVER gave a potential war enemy ANY of our patents, is beyond absurd.
Veterans hospitals are federal facilities, and could start trials today nationwide without regard to what state officials say.
TDS runs deep,
Into your treatment it will creep...
They will shit him down. They are not supposed to be using HC. The FDA is lying. They are stopping its use
There’s a twitter account I found that’s of a wonderful lady who runs a 100-year-old vet and low income senior’s home in Seattle. The account is @Real_EllieBrown. She’s been testing the HCQ/Zpack combo for a month for her residents, also with good results. She’s quite a fighter and a woman of faith. I have come to admire her fighting spirit in this crisis.
“the board is out of line”
not if you bothered to read the full article,which states:
“On Wednesday, the Oregon Board of Pharmacy issued a rule for prescriptions that will be in effect until the public health crisis is over.
Prescriptions for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine can only be dispensed for the following conditions:
1.) If the prescription is part of therapy started before March 8.
2.) The prescriber gave a diagnosis code based on clinical findings for which the medication is indicated.
3.) If the prescription is written for a COVID-19 infection.
4.) The patient is hospitalized with a positive test result.
the obvious intent is to disallow prescriptions for hoarding purposes only and makes total sense ... just like limiting folks to one bundle of TP or paper towels at a time, only the above is to try to keep people from dying unnecessarily instead of just being inconvenienced ...
Good on her!!!
plushaye wrote:
“There’s a twitter account I found that’s of a wonderful lady who runs a 100-year-old vet and low income senior’s home in Seattle. The account is @Real_EllieBrown. She’s been testing the HCQ/Zpack combo for a month for her residents, also with good results. She’s quite a fighter and a woman of faith. I have come to admire her fighting spirit in this crisis.”
It is worse than that. 90% of our antibiotics come from CHINA!!!
Thanks....I did a lousy job reading it
Actually, this is a state facility. Oregon has two facilities reserved for veterans of foreign wars, who were injured or contracted their illness in a war zone.
These facilities are practically gold-plated. They have the best of everything. Even the food is good.
I live 22 miles away from this one.
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