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."
> “Why do they keep ignoring zinc which Dr Zelenko says is key? Maybe they have enough and don’t need supplementation?”
Two explanations, both play simultaneously.
1. HIH/CDC federal budget charge codes for HCQ (used by hospitals to charge for HCQ treatment) are accompanied by required protocols as attachment or as reference. Those charging against the federal codes are required to follow the accompanying protocols as general treatment procedure. Inside these protocols there is no requirement to include Zinc. WHo approved the budget codes and protocols? Fauci.
2. The average blood plasma level for Zinc among Americans is low that in countries like Frace, Italy, Japan because of dietary differences. Some Americans will have Zinc present in their blood already that gets pushed by HCQ into pneumocyte cells to stop SARA-COV-2 from replicating and causing COVID-19. Other Americans will not have sufficient Zinc in their blood and will suffer ===> MIXED RESULTS … RIGGED FOR FAILURE.
The FDA Seal of Approval so quickly while a drug with an established record, HCQ, gets not even a clinical trial.
Follow the money
Typos
HIH = NIH
lo that = lower than
Frace = France
Let me guess. “Dr.” Fauci has a financial interest in Demresivir?
Thanks, seek and find!
Me Robinson, here’s another one for the record; the “Trump pills” work!!!
Which would you choose?”
Both? If each will help.
> “Why do people jump into conclusions without bothering to read the entire article?”
It’s true the Texas MD included Zinc but no need to be harsh on Eagle6.
Eagle6 like many if not most is scanning headlines and intros, and has read previously that studies did not include Zn. So the question is a general one.
This Texas MD saw to it to follow Dr. Zelenko’s proven success formula. But not all MDs are doing this because they are shown only the MIH/CDC protocols that accompany the budget charge codes.
He’s definitely tied to the Gates Foundation which has a financial interest.
He’s definitely tied to funding the Wuhan Lab with millions of US dollars. The dollars had become restricted to fund US agencies and labs with development and testing of the SARS viruses so he sent the dollars $3.7 million to China.
He’s an evil one. POTUS is letting him keep his station to avoid skirmish outbreaks on the Administration’s flank while allowing Fauci to expose himself and show his true colors to the American people.
> “The FDA Seal of Approval so quickly while a drug with an established record, HCQ, gets not even a clinical trial.”
Not quite.
Early on, (earlier than remdesivir) Plaquenil was FDA approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
Dr. Zelenko will be publishing his observational study results any day now and furthermore has been funded for an FDA approved clinical trial.
Other studies have been funded for HCQ but they are poorly designed and do not include critical combination components that make for a high rate of success. Such studies are rigged for failure.
Read the article next time before posting.
Yep, nothing but another anecdote.
I wonder: How many anecdotes does it take to equal one fact?
They really need to a double-blind clinical trial to verify metabolism and pulse.
“Armstrong’s approach was to begin administering Hydroxychloroquine a Zpac and Zinc just as soon as a resident first started showing symptoms.”
“”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.””
“HCQ seems to relive symptoms within hours, while Remdesivir is being touted because it shortens recovery from 15 days to 11 days.
BIG DEAL!
Remdesivir, can you say scam? Follow da money!
Actually parachutes have never been proven to work! To prove they work would need a randomized control group with parachutes that were packed in a manner they would not open!
There were no volunteers for the control group.
Thus it should be noted that the thousands of lives parachutes have saved is only anecdotal.
Sorry “both” are NOT AVAILABLE TODAY!!!
Exactly!
Nobody gets rich off of a cheap generic drug.
That's like reading instructions.
There's no challenge.
Anybody can do it that way.
Besides, it would be breaking FR tradition.
Thank you Hostage.
I did miss that Zn was included but it was a general question because many protocols, including that VA garbage, does not include it.
Hostage answered my question.
For those that got your panties in a wad, I won't bother you with my stupid questions again.
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