Posted on 04/17/2020 5:15:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I just heard on a radio show that thanks to Sen. Ron Johnson (see background at Post 40.), governors like Gov. Cuomo won’t be able to stop physicians from giving their patients prescriptions for HCQ. Hope it’s true.
It was on this radio station last night:
“Nightside with Dan Rea
....Anti-Malaria Drugs and COVID-19. The former Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Lee Vliet, joins Dan to discuss how hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine (anti-malaria drugs) are being utilized to combat COVID-19. This after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) forwarded a letter to President Trump with thousands of signatures supporting the right to use the drugs on virus patients. ..”
More information: I listened to the audio of his interview that the article is a (very poor) description of and he does say he treated 56 patients.
He didn’t clearly say he gave them all HCQ, but you could infer that from the way he discussed it.
And if that’s the case, and all are still alive, it’s really something considering it’s a nursing home population that he’s treating.
Maybe the other 27 died.
Hope your "point" wasn't as dense as it appeared...it shows why we need to constantly remind folks of common sense actions.
what a nice place!
> if I ever got a bad case of it, I’ll take “reducing the severity”
Certainly!
Thank you Grampa.
Here’s an anecdote for us.
For many years, I have gotten a mostly-dry cough every couple years in the winter, that would not go away. The first and worst time I let it go for weeks. Finally went in to the doctor and even though there was not a lot of stuff being coughed up, I made the most of my claim that it had gone to a bacterial infection. Got a Z Pak and was cured within a day or two.
Now every time this happens, I make the same claim of nasty brown junk being coughed up even though it’s minimal if at all. Z Pak, cured.
SO - knowing Reality Is Complicated, I started wondering a few months ago “does azithromycin have anti-viral properties?” but didn’t follow up on it.
Lo and behold that question is now a thing.
Of course every MD will make you feel like an idiot if you bring this up, because of enduring confusion in the completely mis-educated populace about viral vs bacterial infection. (Are they really so confused - are they not comorbid very very often?)
How about another anecdote. Saw my pharmacist yesterday when I went to the store for a box of wine. Asked him have you been prescribing a lot of HCQ? He said at first, yes, a lot, and some of it was prophylactic. So some docs around here are / were doing that. My own went from trying to make me feel bad for asking, to saying he follows guidance and would prescribe with symptoms.
Also just anecdotally, it is rather disgusting how large retail chains like Walmart and Walgreens only got around to giving mask in the last few days, to their workers. And the masks are $hitty surgical ones that don’t protect these front-line people. Pharmacists included in this. I would say they are pretty important to us, yes?
90% fail by the corps and the US that millions of effective masks did not surface a month ago!
In the meantime - Jerome Corsi is publicizing a tele-med place that will Rx HCQ for you if your own doc is socially (eh, “guidance”) bound.
Done rambling for a while.
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