Posted on 04/12/2020 5:25:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One morning during my last semester in college, I woke up with a strange rash on my face. When it didn’t go away after exhausting a tube of over-the-counter cortisone, my mother persuaded me to see a doctor. The diagnosis was lupus: a life-changing autoimmune disease in which the body literally attacks itself. The physical effects of the disease are cruel, including excruciating joint pain, organ damage, dramatic hair loss, and debilitating fatigue—most of which I have experienced again and again, often for long stretches, throughout my life. And while lupus can be managed, it has no cure.
For three decades, I kept this private and spoke of my condition only with my family and a handful of close friends. I had no intention of changing that until the coronavirus changed everything.
Millions of Americans find themselves vulnerable to COVID-19 because of underlying health challenges, but this pandemic has unearthed particularly deep fractures along our nation’s racial and gender fault lines. This is especially true of lupus. Roughly 1.5 million Americans live with lupus, and we are overwhelmingly female and disproportionately black or brown. For black women like me, lupus tends to take hold at a younger age with more serious, life-threatening consequences. For us, the coronavirus could very well be a death sentence.
Worse still, the pandemic is amplifying the inequities of the health system in tragic ways. For instance: when the president of the United States decided to hype—as a coronavirus treatment—the primary medication used for controlling lupus, he put an already disadvantaged group of patients in even greater jeopardy.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Bleeding heartism at it’s most unabashedly brazen.
Trump is Hitler. Because he recommended a medicine that can save lives?
Question: How true is it that in the USA, Lupus patients cannot get Hydroxychlorquine for their condition today?
Anybody knows?
Poor baby. She has no sympathy for the people that will die in 14 days if they do not get the medicine.
The Atlantic - idiot reservoir.
Trumps touts it because doctors who administer it tout it and patients who were saved by it tout it.
Question: How true is it that in the USA, Lupus patients cannot get Hydroxychlorquine for their condition today?
Anybody knows?
The Author, (of that inscrutable skin color pigmentation)
Maya Lakshmi Harris is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and television commentator. She is a political analyst for MSNBC and in 2015 was appointed as one of three senior policy advisers to lead the development of an agenda for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Wikipedia
President Trump secured over 10 million doses in a week. Its being sent to various states who requested it. Where is the beef?
Maya L Harris wants people to die.
“How true is it that in the USA, Lupus patients cannot get Hydroxychlorquine for their condition today?”
My wife’s best friend, not a problem at all.
Democrats are evil.
Maya Harris is suffering from an epic life-threatening case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Call an ambulance.
I understand the concern for an adequate supply of the HCQ drug. The one thing that disturbs me, however, is the notion that supplies of the drug ought to be saved for Lupus patients, etc, ‘because they need it”.
With Covid-19 threatening the lives of many Americans, they need it too. It is not a silly notion to use it to prevent deaths during this pandemic.
I certainly hope that by now everyone in the USA is aware of the Chinese monopoly in production of important prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The solution is not to deny patients life saving drugs because of a limited supply, but to make sure our country returns to self sufficiency in our medical supplies.
Kamala’s sister?
I know. On my face book groups people scream you have to stay home and they don’t care if you can’t support your family due to 4-12 week shut down of this country and if it needs to go longer suck it up because people are dying and we are putting them in mass graves. But boy oh boy don’t be taking their Hydro away from the people that need it. That is selfish and heartless. SMH
There are 21 million doses of this drug in the US..no one should have an issue finding it..but according to the commie media, this drug is “Dangerous” so no one should be on it right
Lots of people like to talk about the scarcity of the drug - including them.
However, I'm not aware of any of them actually going without their prescriptions.
Anybody know of people who could not get their normal prescription filled for those treatments?
Maya Harris probably has PLENTY of the drug in her medicine cabinet in case she gets the Wu Flu
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