Posted on 04/12/2020 1:43:26 PM PDT by rintintin
At the center of a daily tit-for-tat between President Donald Trump and leading infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci, debating the advisability of using the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, is Dr. Robin Armstrong, a Texas City-born hospitalist at Mainland Medical Center, graduate of La Marque High School and the University of Texas Medical Branch, and former president of the Galveston County Medical Society.
Armstrong is also a leading Texas Republican, member of the Galveston Pachyderm Club, delegate at the 2016 Republican National Convention that nominated Donald J. Trump and national party committeeman for Texas.
As of Sunday, 39 COVID-19-infected patients under Armstrong’s care at The Resort at Texas City nursing home completed a five-day regimen of hydroxychloroquine.
“After Sunday, none of them will be on it anymore,” Armstrong said. “We’re just happy the patients are better.”
Armstrong based that observation on how the 39 nursing home residents are looking, on no evidence of increased shortness of breath and that no one who started on it has been sent to the hospital.
“That’s a positive result,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at galvnews.com ...
“Twelve additional patients were added to the five-day treatment regimen — hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin or Z-Pac and a zinc supplement — over the next few days.”
ZINC ping
I wrote a comment to NPR claiming they attached the doctor on racial grounds because they thought black doctors were inferior.
Hoist them by their own race card.
Sheesh, attacked, not attached. Sorry.
“I wrote a comment to NPR claiming they attached the doctor on racial grounds because they thought black doctors were inferior.”
Blacks are disproportionately suffering the worst COVID symptoms.
So Blacks are hardest hit by NPR’s attempt to block a promising COVID treatment.
NPR is lobbying against the health interests of Black Americans.
>>I’m not sure the Dr. in the protective gear is the same as the one in the inset photo.<<
I’m pretty sure it is, but it’s an AP photo per the credits. They probably lightened it up a bit (okay, a lot) to hide the fact that a prominent Texas Republican is black.
I’m serious. The AP is as bad as the rest of the media. Worse even, since most people think they’re unbiased and their stuff appears in local news all over the country.
There ya go. Throw that race card and knock over their glass of chardonnay that our taxes are paying for.
Smug little pukes. Would be fun to see them deal with a charge of racism.
There are no Obama Doctors. There are no Trump Doctors.
There are only Doctor Doctors.
Repeat until it is entrenched into your Memory.
Here’s the gratuitous fodder in the article:
“Armstrong said he didn’t inform patients’ relatives before using the drug, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends before physicians use any drugs not approved by the FDA for treatment of COVID-19.”
I don’t even know if what they wrote is true at this point, but with a Republican at the center of the story, I suppose they couldn’t resist. Note that is says “recommends” not “requires” or “demands.” But they had to get it in there.
The virus has one hell of an ally in the press; that is for certain, and all because Orange Man Bad. But at least they ran the article, I guess.
I wonder what the relatives of the other 41 patients are thinking as they read it? We’ll never find out because the press certainly isn’t going to run any of them down to ask them, especially since their response is likely to be “Why aren’t they giving it to our father too?”
If it saves one life it should be used. It has saved thousands which is why the DNC hates it.
really?
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