Posted on 05/23/2020 9:10:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Roughly 1,300 patients at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities have received hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 since late March, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, this week, Wilkie said that, between Feb. 1 and April 23, the VA purchased more than 6.3 million tablets of the antimalarial drug, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in late March on an emergency use basis to treat the novel coronavirus.
Hydroxychloroquine is normally used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, and the VA dispenses roughly 1 million pills of it a month for those conditions, according to Wilkie.
The secretary said the VA purchased such a vast amount to ensure that it had a sufficient supply for patients with those diseases, as well as those with COVID-19.
"During this tracked time period, VA used about 18,000 of the tablets for COVID-19, which equates to .28%," he wrote.
Wilkie's letter was a response to Schumer's request May 10 that the VA explain its bulk purchases of the medication and use to treat veterans with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Hydroxychloroquine has been widely touted as a treatment by President Donald Trump, who admitted this week that he has taken it as a prophylaxis to prevent infection.
Schumer said he and several veterans groups have concerns about the use of the medication on VA patients, many of whom are older and have underlying health conditions that make them more susceptible to the drug's most severe side effect, a disruption of regular heart rhythms.
"Veterans' groups remain deeply concerned that the VA has made large purchases of this drug and appears to have administered it to veterans despite the well-known, and in some cases, fatal risks," he wrote Wilkie.
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“I once long ago broke an FR thread by leaving out the slash close on
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(lots of them). If say someone set their text to “red” but didn’t close out the red tag then the rest of the post was red. Simple fix needed.
It was to make the point that every post needed to be reset to “normal” parameters which wasn’t the case at the time. “
Nerd. That was You? I remember that.
Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired.
;-)
The Indian equivalent of the CDC recently published guidelines for prophylactic use of HCQ by frontline healthcare workers.
Revised advisory on the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as prophylaxis for SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
Also in India:
Critics Blast Trump For Taking HCQ As Preventative, But Police Officers in India Are Too, And Here’s How That’s Worked
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/05/21/police-in-india-given-hcq-as-prophylactic-n2569211
Still just trying to save the world.
“... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
- CS Lewis
A little creative editing. See CNNMSNBCABCSeeBS for reference.
Sincerely,
Your Nerd. ;-)
PS: Still working on my conscience. On one shoulder I have the devil and the other an angel. Its kind of a toss up who wins. Means to an end and all that ...
Still just trying to save the world.
“... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
- CS Lewis
A little creative editing. See CNNMSNBCABCSeeBS for reference.
Sincerely,
Your Nerd. ;-)
PS: Still working on my conscience. On one shoulder I have the devil and the other an angel. Its kind of a toss up who wins. Means to an end and all that ...
“On one shoulder I have the devil and the other an angel. Its kind of a toss up who wins. “
Go with the angel. every time. just Sayin. you know, God Wins.
Good advice.
Sorry about the double post. Not sure how that happened but I’ve got a lot of tabs open.
I wonder if I did like a hundred duplicate posts if FR would “learn” to check and delete an identical post from a user simply by checking if the user’s previous post was identical?
Multiple identical posts are not unusual. Trivial fix.
Hmm. Would you like to be a test subject? ;-)
Just so you know we’re done on my end. It was fun. Thanks.
Of course you may reply. We’re not fighting.
I would always reply. Sounds like you got skills.
Hope that wasn't your thread I trashed long ago.
No not at all I likely abused the whole too in that thread. until quick fix was pointed out. It was fun. Wwwest days.
See, you said “Sounds like you got skills.”
I responded: “The only thing I can’t do is brag. ;-)”
That was a brand new, never, ever expressed joke and you missed it. It was a pretty good one. It deserved at least an “lol”.
Maybe another cup of coffee? ;-)
Note lowercase (lol). Maybe not that funny but I like to make people smile and do so on a regular basis but not my wife.
If you could order a sense of humor on Amazon I’d have got her two just to be sure plus I could return them if they proved defective within thirty days.
Thanks I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and don’t forget to tip the Hlbqwertxyz thing serving you. ;-)
Have to go out for a while.
God bless our fallen. May we always be worthy of their sacrifice.
Just an ordinary American that understands how blessed we are just to have been born here. See our Constitution and Bill of Rights for reference.
TH54
Schumer is a POS.
Where, exactly, did he get his medical degree? Oh, yeah, that’s right.....NOWHERE. How much experience does he have in medical research? Oh, yeah, that’s right....NONE.
I truly need to stop reading EVERYTHING that mentions Schumer or Pelosi, or I am going to lose my mind.
HCQ is effective as a preventative, and to keep an incipient infection from progressing. The VA was giving it to elderly men whose lungs were already destroyed who were dying on vents.
This makes me so angry I could scream.
Dr. Zelenko stated that he added zinc to the French protocol because Americans tended to be more deficient in zinc than the French (because of diet).
PIKER AMOUNT. 42,000 DOSES PLAQUENIL PER DAY GIVEN TO VETERANS. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/19/va_secretary_robert_wilkie_on_any_given_day_dod_uses_42000_doses_of_hydroxychloroquine.html
Most common Rheumatoid drug. PLAQUENIL IS BRAND NAME, hydroxychloroquine is the CHINESE GENERIC, HAS LESS ACTIVE MEDICATION IN IT, MORE SIDE EFFECTS.
OPPS INDIA GENERIC
Not necessarily. It simply means they did not receive that parti ular dtug (s) in the course of their treatment which may have included ventilation. Of note though, most studies I see that call it a dud, make no mention of using zinc which seems a critical component. And I'd like to see more on hydroxy's use as a prophylactic.
LOL! at least. :-)
If you were in the Military and deployed to just about anywhere since about 1950 you got it... we called it the Red Pill ... it was a Malaria Prophylactic and if I remember correctly we took one a day for 5 weeks prior to being In Country
(I’m working off memory so ?)
PLAQUENIL with ZINC. Got it. Thanks. Taking meds from the source of the disease does not make a lot of sense especially if its unclear whose interests they are supporting.
Their’s or yours.
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