Friday, March 27, 2020

Florida man whose 'game changer' coronavirus treatment was touted by Trump is a believer, but warns: Don't try this at home

Florida man whose 'game changer' coronavirus treatment was touted by Trump is a believer, but warns: Don't try this at home
Excerpt: According to the account Giardinieri provided to Yahoo News, doctors never told him his diagnosis of the coronavirus compounded with pneumonia would be fatal, but by Friday he’d become convinced that he was unlikely to survive. “It was my feeling based on how it was progressing, how my heart was doing, how my breathing was doing. It was getting shallower and shallower by the day,” Giardinieri said. So he began reaching out to family and friends to say goodbye. One friend responded with a text urging him to ask his doctor for hydroxychloroquine, which he’d heard about on “The Ingraham Angle.” Fox News host Laura Ingraham has talked about the Trump-endorsed medication multiple times on her show since last week, even saying that she’d “happily volunteer” to test the drug as a treatment for the coronavirus. Giardinieri said he asked a nurse about the medication, who then relayed his request to the doctor. Though the physician informed Giardinieri that he could not provide him with the drug, he put him in touch with an infectious disease doctor who, after speaking to Giardinieri on the phone, agreed to authorize the use of hydroxychloroquine. Thirty minutes later, Giardinieri said, a nurse was giving him his first dose in pill form. The next morning, he says, he woke up completely symptom-free. [OVERNIGHT??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m gullible, but have to admit I’m skeptical about how serious his case was. Overnight or instantaneous cures strike me as unlikely. It will be interesting to see if he releases his exact treatment records and test results after treatment. I can’t begin to say how much I hope this is true. Notice this is sourced from Yahoo, not exactly a right-leaning news outlet. I added emphasis. Do read the article for its cautions, if nothing else. Ron P.]

Same claim that the evidence for the drug was "anecdotal".  It wasn't, it
was a formal clinical study in France by a guy just as qualified as Fauci
is.  Yes, it was a small study, not the 6 month, 2000 person formal
double blind statistical kind that the rigid statisticians like, but it
was more than good enough to demonstrate the drug is almost certainly
useful, and given it's been in use for over 50 years (I took it in Viet
Nam), giving it to people in danger of death is more than sensible.

Del

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