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Texas Nursing Home: Media Ignores Good News. |
2020-05-06 |
Victory Girls via Instapundit With Sarah Hoyt's shocked face! Texas nursing home, The Resort, generated all manner of concern-troll headlines and scare-mongering articles almost a month ago by treating its patients with the hydroxychloroquine cocktail. Good news was reported last week. Where are the follow-up articles? Let’s start with the good news via one local Austin station.
"If we didn’t make the decision quickly then we could potentially lose 15 to 20% of the residents which was not an option," said the Doctor. Armstrong’s approach was to begin administering Hydroxychloroquine a Zpac and Zinc just as soon as a resident first started showing symptoms. Dr. Armstrong probably underestimated the percentage of residents he could have lost. We are seeing now that close to 50% of the deaths from the Wuhan Bat Lab Virus have come from nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, close to 40% in Texas alone. However, because of Dr. Armstrong’s decision to put his residents health ahead of political considerations, and taking care to carefully monitor his residents reaction to the drug cocktail, including administering EKGs, only one resident died out of the 56 residents who tested positive. As tragic as that one death, it could have easily been 22. Anecdotal! The scare-mongers will shout. Of course it is. When faced with the prospect of losing 30-40% of the people entrusted into his care, would anyone accept it if the residents were randomized so half got placebos and likely have 8 to 11 of them died instead of one? ...Let’s review some of the media malfeasance on this issue. AP: Nursing home patients trying unproven virus drug in Texas AP April 6, 2020.
President Donald Trump has promoted the drug as he grasps for ways to sound hopeful in the face of a mounting death toll and with the worst weeks yet to come for the U.S. But medical officials warn that it’s dangerous to be hawking unproven remedies, and even Trump’s own experts have cautioned against it. And that's kids why we call it "The Great State of Texas". I'm sure lots of Docs gave HCQ to their patients - on a QT so is not to be arrested. As of today, I see no update on this article or a link to an update. |
Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
#8 I've been on 5000 D for a long time. I think I'll add one gram vitamin C and also zinc until this plague dies out. |
Posted by: KBK 2020-05-06 18:13 |
#7 I think if it was happening to me, I'd ask for HCQ/Zinc/AZ on an outpatient basis, and if the progression required hospital admission, I'd go with the protocol recommended by this group. |
Posted by: KBK 2020-05-06 18:11 |
#6 Thanks for the updates, grom and garth. The website for the Frontline Consortium A pdf of their latest treatment protocol They have dropped HCQ and added optional thiamine, vitamin D, and zinc. |
Posted by: KBK 2020-05-06 17:26 |
#5 If I catch COVID, I'd request lord garth's link for treatment when I get to the emergency room. The treatment plan is dated April 6th. I guess I missed it in the news. |
Posted by: Bobby 2020-05-06 14:03 |
#4 The legal issue Grom mentioned is different in different States. Texas has a robust "Right to Try" law. Most other States have such a law but it may not have the provisions that Texas has. There is also the "Compassionate Use" regulation (FDA). This dates to the Reagan Admin but the regulation was made simpler and more lenient in the Trump administration. |
Posted by: lord garth 2020-05-06 10:08 |
#3 can't let OrangeManBad be right about something can we? instead let's pretend that he told everyone to drink bleach and inject lysol! wee! |
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-06 08:13 |
#2 I stand corrected, Garth. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-06 05:08 |
#1 actually, doctors with real patients have been giving a hcq cocktail for some time a group of them formed a "Frontline Consortium" and issued a bulletin on this back in early April https://media2-production.mightynetworks.com/asset/9794803/Treating_Covid-19_in_ER_2_-_April_6_2020_final.pdf |
Posted by: lord garth 2020-05-06 05:02 |