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2020-12-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani receiving same Covid drugs as president

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Rudy Giuliani spotted leaving hospital 1700 on 9 Dec. 2020 (CNN)
So much disinformation and agenda-pushing in MSM coverage about the pandemic, it is hard to keep one's head on straight.
TRUMP'S COVID TREATMENT: Dexamethasone is a tried-and-tested steroid Trump doesn't own the treatment. He got no special favoritism when he received it in Oct. It has not been declared "safe and effective" for COVID by the FDA. "Experts" still waffle and weasel about its use and what the threshold for giving it might be. My own sister was hospitalized the day after Thanksgiving with a urinary tract infection and with COVID-19 which she contracted while she was locked down for most of 2020 at her assisted living facility. She got a 6-day course of dexamethasone despite (AFAICT) not having the most common COVID symptoms. She got antibiotics for the UTI including a Z-pack which might also have been aimed at the COVID. She got better quickly is still very weak. Onn her 8th day she was transferred to a SNF combined with a rehab hospital to see if she regain her ability to walk. 8 days of bedrest when you're 78 is no way to retain your muscle strength and agility.
It is wrong to call Veklury (R), remdesevir, an experimental drug, since on 22 Oct 2020 the FDA approved is use for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Per FDA website it is the first treatment for COVID-19 to receive FDA approval, this despite controversy among the experts that it really reduces the mortality among the sickest patients. New England Journal of Medicine 2 Dec 2020 article "These remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon regimens had little or no effect on hospitalized patients with Covid-19"
It is unclear whether Rudy received any of the monoclonal antibody infusions given EUA by the FDA 9 Nov. 2020. Scattered TV and newspaper reports nationwide now have many accounts of high risk patients rapidly recovering from COVID-19 after receiving these treatments. In my sister's case, myself and her doctor have been unable to find any nearby place that offers this therapy. 100,000 doses of one of them, bamlanivimab, have been allocated nationwide, but there is no coherent program publicizing its availability. 900,000 more doses are in the pipeline for outpatient use by the end of Jan. 2021.
See this inspiring story about a 103 year old veteran who was stricken with COVID-19 and quickly got a great deal better after. He was given bamlanivimab. He turned 104 as he was recovering at home.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2020-12-10 04:07|| 2020-12-10 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you, Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843. I hope your sister continues recovering well.

The breadth and depth of knowledge around here is simply amazing.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-10 09:47|| 2020-12-10 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The minute I took the cocktail I felt 100% better.

Do you have to have CV-19 to get this stuff?

Posted by JohnQC 2020-12-10 15:05|| 2020-12-10 15:05|| Front Page Top

#4 The monoclonal antibodies start inactivating infectious COVID-19 virions as soon as they make contact with them. Probably they don't affect cells that have been taken over by the virions. When I've had a severe cold and start recovering, I swear I could feel my new antibodies cancelling out by virions hour by hour. So I'm not surprised to read that.
Google "outpatient monoclonal antibody infusion" "bamlanivimab infusion" "outpatient bamlanivimab" Set the time search function for the last month or two to snag all the news reports about other patients who have been getting monoclonal antibody infusions.
By the way, if you or any of your friends or loved ones are high risk for severe COVID-19 infections (e.g. >= age 65, for starters) use the same search terms I just listed, and ask your doctor or primary care practitioner[PCP] about them. If they don't know, they are bloody ignorant. If they don't care or fob you off, it is time for you to find another PCP. Time is critical: wait too long and the virus will take over and it may be too late for the infusion to really help.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2020-12-10 15:57|| 2020-12-10 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Nebraska is far more proactive in outpatient monoclonal antibody infusions than Cleveland Ohio which has no news coverage as good as this:
https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2020/12/03/mary-lanning-keeping-pace-with-covid-19-treatments/

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2020-12-10 16:00|| 2020-12-10 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Fact sheet from Eli Lilly for patients referred to outpatient bamlanivimab infusions. Read the whole thing.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2020-12-10 16:05|| 2020-12-10 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 More disgraceful and biased coverage today by WaPo on the treatment Rudy Giuliani got that seems to have worked so well for him. Where's the outrage?
--- And by the way, where is WaPo coverage concerning the spotty and poorly publicized nationwide rollout of outpatient monoclonal antibody infusion therapy for everybody else. Not on their website AFAICT.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2020-12-10 16:09|| 2020-12-10 16:09|| Front Page Top

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