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.
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I was on FB today and someone posted a picture of President Trump and his family and an article stating his family invested in this hydroxychlorquine. I have heard he had minimal prior investment. But so what, many cases haven proven that it is working. I wouldn’t even ask that anti-Trump dude if he’d take it if he was in dire need...Not wasting my time. This just hardens me as a Trump voter.
If Trump ignored it with the success reports coming in from both domestic and foreign medicos, he would be utterly pilloried!
Now the machinery to produce these drugs in very large quantities is coming on line. Yes the people who have needed it as a long-term maintenance drug are suffering from shortages, that has to be admitted, but this is a short term thing with lives being saved on the Wuhan side.
These are victims too, but from China, not from Trump!
Lies. Production has been ramped
Yeah that’s a typical liberal attack.
The “Trump pill” is a generic drug.
Probably mfg by 30 outfits around the world.
Isn’t retail in the US about 15 bucks for a month?
Three people walk into a Brooklyn Dr. office, one has Corona virus, one has painful arthritis and one has manageable Lupus (as is the case for 90% of those afflicted) The Dr. only has Choloriquine for one of them for for the next few weeks time. Who gets it?
It’s really not that hard....except for the Maya L. Harris’s of the world. It’s unfathomable how dumb she is.
You posted 2 anti-HCQ articles in a row. I’m sensing an agenda.
First Trump is wrong to tout HCQ because it doesn’t work.
Now, he’s wrong to tout HCQ because it does work.
It boggles the mind why sane people still subscribe to facebook.
I sked her if she had enough and she said she has quite enough for many months.
She contacted everyone in here lupus group.
All good.
All the pharmacies that she deals with?
No problem.
Thought obamacare was supposed to take care of all of these health inequities.
He apparently has it in one of his mutual funds. I personally have no idea what stocks are in most of my mutual funds. Most have over 100 different investments. Some have over a thousand.
Hydrocloroquine is a generic drug. Any pharmaceutical company can make it.
Hydrocloroquine is a generic drug. Any pharmaceutical company can make it.
Which makes the idiotic lib accusation all the more absurd.
RE: You posted 2 anti-HCQ articles in a row. I’m sensing an agenda.
I’m sensing someone who is only looking for what he wants to look.
Have you looked at the NUMEROUS positive articles I’ve posted about HCQ?
You are talking to one of the most prolific Hydroxychloroquine posters in FR. Just search for my Screen Name.
Now, why do I post contrary articles? Well, for knowledgeable readers to refute them. You are most welcome to do so as well.
If you are unable to do so, I suggest you sit back and wait for others to post.
This forum isn’t a ONE SIDED forum.
Investing in hydroxy is a lot like investing in a generic process fir producing birth control pills—not much real profit because just about anybody with a license can make the drug.
I’m sane enough to be here on FR...FB has my close family and consv friends. What surprised me as one of my close friends introduced the post and brought it forward.
first, SHE has other medications which work,
the infected do not.
second, the half life of her meds is about a year.
what an ungracious @#%$h
In a couple of weeks, when producers finish ramping up, we are going to be FLOODED with the drug.
The lupus people can survive .
If she has lupus and is taking hydrochloroquine she is functionally immune. So, no it isn’t dangerous to her. People who took hydrochloroquine on board cruise ships for malaria or lupus didn’t get sick.
CC
Due to the ramping up of production of the drug, there will soon be a glut of it, and prices should drop for lupus patients and others who use it.
Every sick person needs it dipstick!
Why is you life more important than others?
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