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U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) is opening up more Wednesday about using hydroxychloroquine during his battle with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Hydroxychloroquine is the anti-malarial drug not yet approved to treat the COVID-19, but has been considered by President Donald Trump to be an effective treatment despite some studies revealing potential health risks. Last week, Trump said he had been taking the drug for weeks to prevent contracting the novel virus. Kelly tells WENY News plenty of personal research and discussions with his doctor guided his decision to take hydroxychloroquine. “He said ‘okay, I can’t tell you you’re right and I...

FRIDAY, May 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A 3-week-old Texas infant in critical condition with COVID-19 was successfully treated and recovered, doctors report.This is one of the first cases of its kind, according to the team of doctors at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).They noted that the initial belief that children aren't at risk of serious illness from COVID-19 has been disproved as more information is gathered on the disease caused by the new coronavirus."We are still so early in the research and data available on COVID-19, and as providers, we need to be aware...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Right now, there’s no one drug proven to cure COVID-19, but President Donald Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to ease the symptoms of certain autoimmune diseases. Some COVID-19 patients have reported using the drug, with mixed results. One of those patients is Eli Hume. “I was scared to death," Hume said. “I literally thought, ‘oh crap, I might not make it out of here.’” Hume contracted COVID-19 in March. After a few days of a high-grade fever, he was admitted into Norton Brownsboro Hospital. For two weeks, the 46-year-old, previously healthy former firefighter battled...

President Trump on Tuesday met with a handful of recovered coronavirus patients who traveled from all over the country, including from states with stay-at-home orders, to meet with him. Some of them had taken hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug the president has been touting. Mr. Trump asked the patients to discuss their experience with the drug, if they took it. Some patients have anecdotally said it has helped them, although clinical trials about the effectiveness and risks of taking the drug have yet to be completed. One of the participants at Tuesday's roundtable was a Democratic state representative, Karen Whitsett, who...

CORAOPOLIS, Pa. — A local family decided to have their father try the anti-malaria drug showing promise as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Channel 11 first told you about 76-year-old Bob Schrecengost last week, when another patient at his nursing home, Caring Heights Community Care and Rehab Center in Coraopolis, tested positive for COVID-19. This weekend, his family got the news that he, too, tested positive. "It was extremely difficult for all of us in my house to hear the news,” said his daughter, Lisa Smarra. Smarra visits her dad outside his window at Caring Heights every day. He has...

Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News medical contributor, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday that his 96-year-old father was recently weak and struggling to breathe but recovered after he was administered an anti-malaria drug and antibiotics. Siegel was discussing hopeful signs that hydroxychloroquine has shown in recent studies when combined with antibiotics for coronavirus treatment. Siegel said his father, who lives in Florida, recently complained about weakness, shortness of breath and feared that he was going to die.

So for what it's worth, this was just posted on a neuro MD site: The author is a triple board certified Neurologist. He has published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. and Cell Mol Neurobiol. He trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian, Hospital for Special Surgery, Montefiore, Northwell and Mount Sinai. He has been in Private Practice for the past 12 years in New York. Surviving COVID-19 with Neurological Involvement from the perspective of a Neurologist "To be honest, it was very scary to go through no matter how much specialized medical training one...

Isn't this a little odd? Doesn't the symptoms described by all of them seem to be symptoms that we all experience when we have the flu or a cold? Obviously, as a die heart Trump supporter, knowing all that the msn and liberals do to get rid of our President, why wouldn't they use this virus/annual flu to wreck the economy, create chaos and confusion with the hopes of damaging President Trump?

Most people do recover from the coronavirus, more than 127,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University, which keeps track of the virus and its spread. Corianne Goldstein, a 32-year-old New Jersey woman who was hospitalized after contracting the virus, is on her way to being one of them. Goldstein, of Matawan, was released from Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel earlier this week and is at home continuing to recover. “It’s nice to be back with my husband and my dogs, just really glad to have somebody who can be next to me for the rest of this journey,” said Goldstein,...

"A good turn"? The guy was coughing up blood----I bet the "good turn" is from the malaria drug. The virus that put John Bessler in the hospital — the virus that left him coughing up blood after days of fever in his apartment, alone — was at first mistaken for the common cold. What else, after all, could it have been? “I didn’t think he had it at the beginning,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Bessler’s wife, tells PEOPLE. “I mean, he was quarantining himself. But based on what he told me, I was far away, but I didn’t really think...

An 87-year-old former Marine who spent two tours in Vietnam and has multiple health conditions survived an epic battle with coronavirus, asserting, “The Marine Corps trains us to deal with adversity; they teach us to adapt, overcome, and continue the mission.” He added another reason for his survival: “And finally, the grace of God. That’s what I have here.” Franklin Eller told CBS News, “I’m feeling great. And I was really fortunate to find myself laying here at the Mayaguez Medical Center. As you may know, I was evacuated from a ship; we were on a cruise in the Caribbean....

CORONAVIRUS has now infected 321 people in the UK, killed thousands around the world and infected a total of more than 100,000 patients. But how many people have recovered from coronavirus?

A 36-year-old man has died of respiratory failure in Wuhan, five days after being discharged from one of the makeshift hospitals built to contain the outbreak, according to a report by Shanghai-based news portal The Paper. The report, which was later removed, said Li Liang had been admitted to the hospital – built to treat patients with mild and moderate symptoms – on February 12, according to his wife, surnamed Mei. He was discharged two weeks later with instructions to stay in a quarantine hotel for 14 days. Mei said her husband was not feeling well two days after leaving...

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The 62 Covid-19 patients who have been discharged here no longer have the virus in them and cannot pass the infection on to others, experts at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) assured. Stories have surfaced in China that one in seven patients who has recovered is still infectious. But they said the situation in Singapore is very different Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of NCID, said doctors monitor virus-shedding in patients' respiratory tract - in other words, they check if the patient is still releasing live virus and thus remains contagious. This is...

Researchers from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention today describe the clinical findings on more than 72,000 COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China, which reveal a case-fatality rate (CFR) of 2.3% and suggest most cases are mild, but the disease hits the elderly the hardest. The study, published in JAMA, is the largest patient-based study on the novel coronavirus, which was first connected to seafood market in Wuhan, China, in December, and has since traversed the globe. Death rate in critically ill: 49% or higher A total of 72,314 COVID-19 cases, diagnosed through Feb 11 were used for the...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director general, played down fears of a global COVID-19 pandemic despite the emergence of new outbreaks of the virus in South Korea, Italy and Iran. He said that "using the word pandemic now does not fit the facts, but it may certainly cause fear", though he added that "the sudden increase in new cases is certainly very concerning". South Korea has now confirmed 977 cases, Italy has recorded 283 and Iran has reported 95. Despite the WHO's statement, many experts believe a pandemic is inevitable and that it's only a matter of time until...

Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu, Bishop Emeritus of Nanyang, has recovered from coronavirus. At age 98, he is among the oldest infected patients to have recovered. Bishop Zhu was diagnosed with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus, on February 3. He was treated at a hospital in Nanyang, in China’s Henan province, and was said to be no longer infected on February 14. In mainland China the fatality rate from coronavirus is 2.3%, though that figure jumps to nearly 15% for those 80 years or older. In mainland China, the death toll of the coronavirus has reached 1,868, and more...