Posted on 05/02/2020 6:40:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
TEXAS CITY, Texas - "This is an experience of a lifetime," said Dr. Robin Armstrong. "This is something we will probably never experience again."
Dr. Armstrong and others at the Resort at Texas City Nursing home knew time wasn't on their side.
"Two of our residents had symptoms and that's when we tested everybody," said nursing home Executive Director Jan Piveral.
56 residents and 33 staff members were COVID-19 positive.
"Our Goal was to make sure we could shelter them in place so we don't spread it to other people," Armstrong said. "Then also at the same time treat them so they would get better."
Armstrong says he knew residents who ended up in the hospital had a higher mortality rate.
"Our goal was to keep them here and treat them with the medications we had available," he said.
When Armstrong began administering Hydroxychloroquine to it was controversial but appeared promising.
"If we didn't make the decision quickly then we could potentially lose 15 to 20% of the residents which was not an option," said the Doctor.
Armstrong's approach was to begin administering Hydroxychloroquine a Zpac and Zinc just as soon as a resident first started showing symptoms.
The patients were being monitored daily.
"We did EKGs on each of these patients to make sure they didn't have the cardiac side effects that everyone talks about," Armstrong said. "None of our patients did."
Armstrong doesn't call the Hydroxychloroquine a cure and is aware of all the recent reports that say the drug shouldn't be used to treat COVID-19.
But he points out only one of the nursing homes COVID-19 patients has died.
"Everyone who got on treatment who started on treatment is actually doing really well," he said.
"I'm so glad that I've got the paper that I'm not positive anymore," said Helen Parrish one of the residents who took the Hydroxychloroquine.
When COVID-19 was creating havoc at the nursing homeowner John Griffin says only two people quit.
"99 percent of the staff stayed we had 34 employees that contracted Coronavirus all lived and 98% are back at work right now," Griffin said.
Whether it was God's will or Hydroxychloroquine Dr. Armstrong can't say exactly what it was that kept so many residents alive through this pandemic.
He says all he know is he had to make a decision fast and he has no regrets.
"It was a situation set up to end very badly," Armstrong said. "I thought we didn't have any other options."
Nursing home officials at The Resort at Texas City discuss administering the experimental COVID-19 treatment, Hydroxychloroquine.
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But they’re only anecdotally alive, yes?
HCQ seems to relive symptoms within hours, while Remdesivir is being touted because it shortens recovery from 15 days to 11 days.
Which would you choose?
"I'll take the low cost generic for $20 Alex"
The difference between Remdesivir and HCQ is the latter is INTENDED to prevent Covid-19 patients from being hospitalized. In other words, apply it as EARLY as you can as soon as symptoms appear and tests show positive. That is what Dr. Zelenko recommends.
Remdesivir on the other hand *IS* intended to be administered when a patient is hospitalized. It is not a pill or tablet to be swallowed. It has to be applied intravenously.
“But they’re only anecdotally alive, yes?“
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BINGO. Yes, they are not alive in a random, placebo controlled clinical study so we should ignore this story. /s
I’ll still take the HCQ for $20 Alex.
“ God’s will or Hydroxychloroquine” The Democrats and the media are not going to like either one those options.
HCQ-Zn-Azt is administered in hospitals and has had great success.
Dr./ Zelenko’s treated patient panel has had many who were hospitalized and survived after HCQ treatment.
Maybe they have enough and don't need supplementation?
That'll give you about 400 pills.
He should have let them all die and gone on talk shows to complain about the horror and how it was all Trump's fault.
At least he'd walk away with a couple hundred K.
The stupidity of smart people these days. It's as if he hasn't already sold his soul!
/s
Interesting that Remdesivir, a new drug with no track record got The FDA Seal of Approval so quickly while a drug with an established record, HCQ, gets not even a clinical trial.
RE: while a drug with an established record, HCQ, gets not even a clinical trial.
Let’s not be purveyor of fake news. HCQ is undergoing lots of clinical trials even as we speak. Whether the trials are intended to replicate the successes in the past is another story. Some of the trials were designed to fail like the NIH sponsored VA trial.
How much “anecdotal” evidence needs to be presented before it becomes fact?
RE: Why do they keep ignoring zinc which Dr Zelenko says is key?
Did you read the article?
Crickets..
Exactly. It’s also surprising that President Trump hasn’t pushed for fast-tracking clinical studies.
Exactly. Sum Ting Wong.
RE: Why do they keep ignoring zinc which Dr Zelenko says is key?
Maybe they have enough and don’t need supplementation?
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Why do people jump into conclusions without bothering to read the entire article? What the Texas Doctor used to treat his patients is WRITTEN THERE.
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