Posted on 05/15/2020 7:29:37 AM PDT by RushingWater
When 83 residents and staff at a Texas City nursing home tested positive for the novel coronavirus in April, Dr. Robin Armstrong rolled the dice.
Armstrong, a politically connected physician and medical director at The Resort at Texas City, obtained supplies of hydroxychloroquine, a drug not approved for treating COVID-19, from the state and immediately began providing the tablets to 38 residents who had tested positive but not yet shown symptoms.
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Owwwwwww! The doc “rolled the dice”. Hey housless chronicle. Phu cough!
Pretty biased article and comments.
I can’t find info on the protocol. Did he include Z-pak and zinc? Or was this early, before that was fully known? Remember that Fauci seemed eager to discredit HCQ alone on the basis of late-stage administration. Here, the administration was early, but we don’t know if it was the full treatment or HCQ alone.
The author seems strangely in-curious.
I can’t read this article. Does it mention Zinc?
The Left-wing Comical chooses their stupid Democrat bias every time.Who still subscribes to this rag?
According to an older GP article, he did the three way combo
Your best survival with the Wuhan virus is having a conservative doctor and living in a Red State.
Just like the evening news, they wonder why their viewership is dropping like a rock when they infuriate half of their potential customers. Not a great business model.
Thanks. And certainly a much more positive review of the results!
Could someone pleases give details for those of us who run into paywall?
It was hcq and azithromycin only. It was way early on
A question: Assuming (as seems to be the case) that all three are necessary for best response, how good are the first two IF there isn’t a zinc deficiency in the patient? And what’s the cross section of zinc concentration (normal vs deficient) across the population?
In other words, is the 10-day dose of zinc a “make-sure” dose in case the patient has a low zinc concentration, or is it necessary to boost it to high levels for therapeutic effect?
My point is not to avoid zinc. It’s to ask if any of the less conclusive studies of HCQ plus Z-Pak without Zinc could be reviewed for patient zinc levels. There might be some retrospective value there.
> “hydroxychloroquine, a drug not approved for treating COVID-19”
Not true. It has been approved by the FDA but the Vaccine Lobby has launched a war to modify its approval to apply only to hospitalized COVID patients and further modified approval to apply to hospitalized COVID who are dying. Then the statistics pile up that HCQ is associated with death.
See how that works?
Let me further describe the scam.
COVID-19 patients having breathing problems can’t get enough oxygen to the blood so what does the body do? It tells the heart “SPEED UP!” to drive more oxygenated blood to the body to compensate the lack of oxygen from the lungs. It’s called ‘tachycardia’. If the lungs are brought under control, the heart will calm.
So what’s the scam?
Certain leashed officials have put out the disinformation that HCQ will worsen tachycardia.
Doctors are told not to prescribe HCQ for patients with heart problems.
To summarize, COVID-19 causes heart racing, HCQ is not to be prescribed for patients with heart beat irregularities, ergo HCQ is not to be prescribed for COVID-19 unless patient is dying, ergo HCQ causes death.
Nice eh?
It’s the science you know.
As Dr. Zev says, in America the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath is no longer “First, do no harm”, it’s “First, don’t get sued”.
It’s sick to see them react with glee over people dying. And just imagine if the doctor trying to help his patients was WHITE!
Make darn sure you have a smart doc who knows these drugs, the reason suppressing the immune system is applicable to the Chinese virus and knows you. There are side effects to all these drugs. It is always an educated decision.
And BTW, one reason corporate owned hospitals love their puppet hospitalists is that they can’t know you and are more inclined to look at algorithms, flow charts and anything else their corporate masters might tell them what to do or not do.
Yes, and how, thru all this, could anyone not see the need to control our borders?
Thanks for the article that actually gives the important part of the story. How many treated etc.
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