Posted on 04/08/2020 9:48:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thirty residents of a Texas City, Texas nursing home are being treated for the coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine. The nursing home houses one of the largest outbreaks in the Houston area.
Out of more than 100 coronavirus tests that were administered to residents and staff at the Resort at Texas City, a nursing home, 83 tested positive for COVID-19. There are 135 beds in this facility in Galveston County. A staff member became ill with the coronavirus and that prompted the mass testing. Now 30 residents are being given hydroxychloroquine as treatment. On Monday, Governor Greg Abbott said that the drug began being administered to the residents Saturday. He said there are no conclusions yet but he will do updates as warranted.
Nana and Pop-Pop are human guinea pigs, essentially, as the medical experts try to get a handle on treatment for the coronavirus. President Trump says, “What have you got to lose?” while Dr. Fauci cautions about the inconclusive test results to date. Those who are testing positive are caught somewhere in the middle of that. Hydroxychloroquine has been used for years against malaria and is prescribed to those with lupus and arthritis. My husband has taken it because his work frequently has taken him overseas to places where exposure to malaria is a concern. He says it makes him feel sick but he never contracted malaria.
In this case, Dr. Robin Armstrong is conducting the treatment of these 30 patients. He is the nursing home’s medical director. Armstrong is also a Republican activist and serves as a surrogate for the Trump campaign. He serves on the advisory board of the Black Voices for Trump coalition and is one of Texas’ two Republican National Committee members. I give this information about Dr. Armstrong because apparently his political activity is important to the Texas Tribune, as they included it in the piece about the drug’s use. Perhaps he has been inspired by President Trump’s advisers who are looking to hydroxychloroquine as a viable drug treatment. Armstrong says it is still too early to tell if the treatment is working. Some patients have experienced improved oxygen saturation but it is too soon to know if that was caused by hydroxychloroquine.
The hydroxychloroquine was donated by Amneal Pharmaceuticals, a donation of 1 million tablets the New Jersey-based company made directly to Texas. The process of securing that donation began a couple of weeks ago.
The donation from Amneal Pharmaceuticals went to the Department of State Health Services pharmacy, which has been distributing the drugs to hospitals upon request, according to a department spokesman, Chris Van Deusen. The department has given 10 bottles to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Hughes said the donation began coming together at least a couple of weeks ago through a colleague at his law firm who knows an Amneal board member. The board member said the company was following reports of shortages of the drug and wanted to give it away to people who needed it, Hughes said. The senator then got in touch with state officials like Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, who Hughes said helped him navigate the bureaucracy of getting the donation into the state’s supply.
“We want to make sure that docs have every possible tool to fight this virus,” Hughes said. “Hydroxychloroquine is not a silver bullet, but many doctors say it’s helping their patients, so let’s make sure they have access to that.”
New York doctors are also using hydroxychloroquine now though initially, Governor Cuomo was hesitant to do so. The Food and Drug Administration began sending thousands of doses of hydroxychloroquine last month.
The FDA is approving the use of the drug on an emergency basis. Dr. Fauci continues to express caution. He says the drug’s success has only been shown anecdotally.
“It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it,” Fauci said at the time. “If you really want to definitively know if something works, you’ve got to do the kind of trial where you get the good information.”
Guidance has been given by the Texas Pharmacy Board to pharmacists and it is clear that hydroxychloroquine can only be given with a prescription from a doctor. This is something advocates have said from the beginning – the drug is only available through a prescribing doctor.
The Texas Pharmacy Board on March 20 issued a guidance to pharmacists saying they would only be allowed to dispense the drug as well as other antimalarial medications to COVID-19 patients with a “written diagnosis from the prescriber consistent with the evidence for its use.”
The guidance also limited new prescriptions to no more than a 14-day supply and required a new prescription for refills so as to “prevent the stockpiling of the drugs and to ensure that reasonable quantities are available for all patients that require therapy with the drugs, including patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.”
The rule did not stop doctors from prescribing the drug for an off-label use, and it did not apply to patients already established on the medication.
“This drug is widely being used to treat COVID-19 although its effectiveness is unclear,” said Dr. Philip Keiser, the Galveston County Local Health Authority. “This drug is licensed by the FDA and doctors have the ability to use it in their best judgment.”
The experiments with hydroxychloroquine in Texas and New York are on the cutting edge of treating this coronavirus. They will provide valuable information going forward. We can thank Nana and Pop-Pop for being our guinea pigs now in order to treat the virus in future pandemics.
The Media has a pre-written story, and is now looking for the one person that dies after being treated with this regimen.
Is zinc sulfate included in the regimen?
This is good I do not trust any rat state testing this.
He says the drug’s success has only been shown anecdotally.”
I’m starting to really hate this guy.
Ellie B Brown (@Real_EllieBrown), ER Director of the Columbia Retirement Home, Seattle (a 100-year-old faith-based skilled nursing home for vets/low income) has been officially testing HCQ/Zpack for at least a month. They’ve had a lot of good results with it, and many lives have been saved (although some covid19 patients have passed on).
Ellie Brown loves the residents. She wouldn’t do anything to harm her patients. She was fighting with the Governor for more protective equipment for her staff. She’s a feisty, Godly woman with purpose. It comes across when I read her tweets.
For the HCQS deniers, a notation on their charts, should they become infected, would preclude the use of ‘non-effective treatments’ such as HCQS and Z-paks. Sorry.
Since the Drug won’t hurt you and has been approved forever, and appears to have positive results for those that have taken it, why aren’t we handing it out like candy and getting back to work??
Don’t forget the Zinc, it is the Zinc that makes HCQ effective.
In this case, Dr. Robin Armstrong is conducting the treatment of these 30 patients. He is the nursing home’s medical director. Armstrong is also a Republican activist and serves as a surrogate for the Trump campaign. He serves on the advisory board of the Black Voices for Trump coalition and is one of Texas’ two Republican National Committee members. I give this information about Dr. Armstrong because apparently his political activity is important to the Texas Tribune, as they included it in the piece about the drug’s use. Perhaps he has been inspired by President Trump’s advisers who are looking to hydroxychloroquine as a viable drug treatment. Armstrong says it is still too early to tell if the treatment is working. Some patients have experienced improved oxygen saturation but it is too soon to know if that was caused by hydroxychloroquine.
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Was this necessary? Maybe we should require journalists to issue disclaimers about their political activism and affiliation, since they seem to think this doctor’s leanings have bearing on his competency.
***We need to KNOW AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE the best estimate on the total number of CV INFECTIONS IN THE USA.
This flu season: 39 million INFECTIONS, 400K hospitalizations, and 24K deaths from the flu. Fatalities as a % of those infected from the flu = 0.06%.
Current USA CV stats: 400K positive tests, 12.8K deaths. BUT WHAT ARE THE NUMBER OF CV INFECTIONS IN THE US? It is in the MILLIONS but is it 5 million? 50 million? We don’t know yet but need to find out ASAP.
BOTTOM LINE IS, THE FATALITIES AS A % OF THOSE INFECTED WITH CV WILL BE MUCH LOWER THAN THE FATALITIES AS A % OF THOSE TESTING POSITIVE WITH CV. We know this because there are a large number of asymptomatic people with CV who have shown no symptoms or were sick for a day or two and recovered.
If the CV fatalities as a % of those infected is as low as we suspect (0.1 to 0.2%) then the CV SPREADS MORE RAPIDLY than was estimated and is LESS LETHAL than we thought (as H1N1 was in 2009-2010). America can then quit this media-driven panic and get back to work. The health of the US economy is at stake. We need ANTIBODY tests done on sample populations as quickly as possible to get this data.
90% of those who have died from CV are over the age of 75 and have pre-existing conditions.
The combination of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc has been working with thousands of patients worldwide.
God bless you and your families.
83 test positive and 30 are being treated? What does this mean?
Minor correction: it’s the HCQ that makes Zn effective, not vice versa. It’s the Zn that inhibits replicase, the enzyme participating in virus proliferation. Hope doctors administering the regimen remember/know about that...
Yes that is what I was trying to say. HCQ makes it easier for the zinc to get into the cells and it is the zinc that prevents the virus from taking over the cell’s nuclei.
>>>83 test positive and 30 are being treated? What does this mean?
Perhaps they are trying to establish a “contolled” experiment. Some receive the drug and some don’t. Or perhaps they are only giving it to the worst off.
About 70 yrs of rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria and lupus patients have routinely used HCQ with volumes of actual stats on performance. They are now finding out those who routinely used it (of about 1400 to 1700 lupus cases studied, don’t appear to have contracted COVID-19. Dr Oz was discussing this with Hannity yesterday after consulting with some doctors who had been prescribing the treatment for over 40 years and rejected Fauci’s claims of inconclusiveness.
The more I listen to Fauci and Birx, the less certain I am of their professional acumen and actual desire to help the public, more than to feed their own arrogant thinking.
I would imagine that applies to elderly people as well.
Active Cases:
1,079,367
Currently Infected Patients:
1,031,353 (96%) in Mild Condition
48,014 (4%) Serious or Critical
The drug can hurt you. If you look it up HCQ has a list of side effects as long as your arm.
One side effect of concern to elderly patients in nursing homes is heart arrythmia.
Another is blindness, usually temporary. Quit a bit of problems on that list concerning vision.
If you get put on HCQ you had better be on watch for the side effects.
But I am sure that I would risk those side effects rather than drown in my own fluids.
“It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it,” Fauci said at the time. “If you really want to definitively know if something works, you’ve got to do the kind of trial where you get the good information.”
Here is how you do it you stupid son of a bitch.
Person one comes down with the WUHOO flu. They use Hydroxychloro on that person. Person gets better as a result- Score + one. Next person..gets better, + one. Third..fourth, and on and on. Add them up and subtract the ones who didnt make it with notations on why.
This asshole needs to be fired. Get him to hell outta there Donald.
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