Posted on 04/10/2020 7:44:48 PM PDT by rintintin
A doctor at the veterans home in Lebanon used a malaria drug to treat eight patients there for coronavirus, but said a state rule enacted last month would prevent him from treating any more veterans there.
But after pushback against the Oregon Board of Pharmacy’s March 25 rule, the board amended it on Wednesday to allow the drug to be used not only in hospitals for confirmed COVID-19 cases, but also long-term care facilities like the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ Home.
Hydroxychloroquine and a similar drug, chloroquine, showed encouraging signs in small, early tests against the coronavirus but has not proved safe or effective for this in any major scientific studies yet. It’s approved now for treating malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
In the second week of March, the first cases of the coronavirus began emerging at the veterans home, when two men fell ill with COVID-19. Then more got sick.
After hearing that hydroxychloroquine could be effective, Dr. Rob Richardson began treating eight of the veterans with it and an antibiotic called azithromycin, also known as Z-Pak.
"I was using it to give them a fighting chance," Richardson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Among those treated appears to be William Lapschies, one of the first two confirmed cases. Lapschies celebrated his 104th birthday Wednesday at the veterans home and doctors have declared him fully recovered, said his daughter, Carolee Brown of Lyons.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Anecdotal....but alive. Therein lies the truth.
Remdesevir is 'Promising new drug!'
A combination of Liberalism (Oregon) and TDS (HCQ is the Trump drug to Libs) is deadly to the citizens.
If William Lapschies was in a home in New York State Andrew Cuomo would have sentenced him to death. Capital punishment is only enforced in the state for COVID19 patients outside of hospitals and babies in abortion clinics.
Remdesivir costs approximately $100, HCQ is $1.00
I hope both drugs are effective and that they find more treatments.
The country needs to get back to work.
One could ‘make an argument’ that the ‘OLD VETS’ are being used as guinea pigs.
Imagine if they went to a ‘Black’ retirement home to test a drug (again...yes, I heard of the Tuskegee syphilis tests of the 30s-40s) and after the war the Army used soldiers in LSD tests and Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland ‘experimented’ on US Soldiers with various drugs etc).
Gov Brown claimed 45,000 might die and we are at 30. What a dictatorette.
"Of the eight patients that Richardson treated with hydroxychloroquine and Z-Pak, seven recovered and one — a 91-year-old patient — died. Richardson has no conclusive evidence that the treatment led to their recovery but there were no negative side effects."
A question that will never be asked by the MSM. Ever.
“Bureaucracy and TDS is going to get people killed. “
It is right now ... thousands are dying needlessly ...
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