Wuhan Virus Watch: Democratic Michigan State Representative Credits Trump, Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 Cure
Hyrdoxychloroquine treatments are being credited with life-saving cures. Infection curves are flattening in NY, TN. CA sending ventilators back to stockpile.
I filled today’s update with some much needed good news.
It is heartening to see a Democratic state representative from Detroit crediting both hydroxychloroquine and President Donald Trump, who touted the drug, for saving her in her battle with COVID-19.
State Rep. Karen Whitsett, who learned Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19, said she started taking hydroxychloroquine on March 31, prescribed by her doctor, after both she and her husband sought treatment for a range of symptoms on March 18.
“It was less than two hours” before she started to feel relief, said Whitsett, who had experienced shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, and what felt like a sinus infection. She is still experiencing headaches, she said.
Whitsett said she was familiar with “the wonders” of hydroxychloroquine from an earlier bout with Lyme disease, but does not believe she would have thought to ask for it, or her doctor would have prescribed it, had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
Trump acknowledged Whitsett via Twitter.
Congratulations to State Representative Karen Whitsett of Michigan. So glad you are getting better! https://t.co/v6z46rUDtg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 6, 2020
Whitsett was a guest on Fox News Channel’s Ingraham Angle to discuss her experience:
LA doctor seeing success with hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
Whitsett isn’t the only one praising hydroxychloroquine. A Los Angeles doctor said he is seeing significant progress in prescribing hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc to treat patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19.
Dr. Anthony Cardillo said he has seen very promising results when prescribing hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc for the most severely-ill COVID-19 patients.
“Every patient I’ve prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free,” Cardillo told Eyewitness News. “So clinically I am seeing a resolution.”
Cardillo is the CEO of Mend Urgent Care, which has locations in Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys and Burbank.
He said he has found it only works if combined with zinc. The drug, he said, opens a channel for the zinc to enter the cell and block virus replication.
Former FCC commissioner Robert McDowell attributes hydroxychloroquine with saving his life
Former FCC commissioner Robert McDowell credits a combination of antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine for saving his life from the effects of COVID-19.
In addition to Dr. Connie Le’s tenacity & powers of perception was her bold decision to fight to get me on #Hydroxychloroquine early on. I was in a tailspin on March 23 & was given less than a 50% chance of survival. But hydroxy & antibiotics kicked in. Many other docs agree.
— Robert M. McDowell (@McDowellTweet) April 4, 2020
Gov. Cuomo: ‘Good signs’ suggest ‘possible flattening of curve’ in NY
New York may be seeing a possible flattening of the curve of infections.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) suggested Monday the state may have flattened the curve of the coronavirus outbreak, but cautioned that it is too soon to tell.
Deaths related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, have stayed flat for two days, he said, while the total number of new hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions are down.
“Those are all good signs and again would suggest a possible flattening of the curve,” he said during his daily press conference.
To flatten the curve of an outbreak means to slow the rate of infections and prevent an influx of patients from overwhelming hospitals and the health care system, potentially leading to fewer deaths.
New model predicts dramatic COVID-19 flattening in Tennessee
Tennessee also sees a flattening of the curve as well.
New projections for Tennessee predict a significant flattening of the curve of COVID-19 cases expected in the coming weeks.
Among the new factors included in the latest version: the potential impact of Gov. Bill Lee’s stay-at-home order.
Rather than facing a critical shortage of hospital beds and ventilators, the new model suggests that the Volunteer State will easily be able to meet the expected demand at the peak of the surge in mid-April.
“This is the most impactful moment of our last couple of weeks in this battle because we see, if we act decisively to mitigate the virus, we are going to make a huge impact on the future of our state,” said Dr. Aaron Milstone, the Franklin pulmonologist who led the push for a statewide mandate.
California lends 500 ventilators to 4 states and two territories
California is in such good shape, curve-wise, it is sending ventilators to other areas that look like they could use them more.
The White House said Monday that 500 ventilators on loan from California will be shipped to Nevada, Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam as the nation faces a crush of coronavirus-related hospitalizations.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced earlier the nation’s most populous state would share some of its ventilators, a necessary tool to keep struggling patients breathing, with the national stockpile even as it hunts for more of its own supplies. Newsom suggested that New York may be one of the states to receive the ventilators, but he said the federal government was best poised to decide where they were needed most.
“We’re very proud to be able to extend a hand of support with those 500 ventilators and send them back east,” Newsom said during a news conference.
Louisiana governor claims he had no idea Mardi Gras in New Orleans would trigger outbreak even though he was given a briefing weeks before
Many people chose poorly during the coronavirus crisis.
The governor of Louisiana said Sunday that he wasn’t told to cancel the massive Mardi Gras celebrations at the end of February, even though governors were briefed on the coronavirus threat weeks earlier.
‘There was not a single suggestion by anyone – a doctor, a scientist, a political figure – that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras,’ John Bel Edwards told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.
‘Rather than look back, I am focused on today and going forward,’ Edwards continued.
Although concerns over coronavirus and its ramifications didn’t manifest until March in the U.S., U.S. governors were briefed February 9 at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting by members of Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force on the growing threat of the respiratory virus.
Iranian official backtracks after calling Chinese COVID-19 figures a ‘joke.’
Iran has also made many poor choices…especially in terms of friends and allies.
Iran’s health ministry spokesman has backtracked after he described China’s official figures on the coronavirus outbreak as a “joke”.
Kianoush Jahanpour made the remarks at a press conference and a tweet on Sunday, adding that China had given the impression that coronavirus was like influenza but with fewer deaths.
His tweet led led to a reproach from the Chinese ambassador to Iran, Chang Hua, who said China’s health ministry had held a press conference every day. “I suggest that you read their news very carefully in order to draw conclusions,” the ambassador said.
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Great summary Leslie.. TY… I just watched Dr.Oz on Lou Dobbs saying that his HC study had been shut down by Gov. Cuomo, here is you are interested.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/upset-dr-oz-vents-ny-governor-cuomo-shuts-study-hydroxycholorquine-early-treatment-coronavirus-video/
Trump is the GameChanger!
Yes, and I wonder if President Trump recommended HCQ to Boris, and if Boris even got it. Boris had plenty of opportunity to get timely treatment with HCQ.
Thank you for this. I live in Canada were the most serious health issue is the mental disorder of Trump Derangement. I have no doubt that if HCQ in combination with Zpack had been touted by the The Most Overrated Man In History, he, one. Barack Obama, would have already received the Nobel prize in medicine and science and human perfection.
A question for those concerned about ethics and public health . Given the strong anecdotal evidence that HCQ, in combination with Z Pak has been an affectiveTreatment or COVID-19 sufferers are clinical trials of those who have this Chinese virus even ethical?
Shouldn’t the the clinical trials be limited to whether these drugs are an effective prophylaxis?
As a lawyer, I can’t imagine that anyone with COVID-19 disease would sign a proper waiver to participate in a clinical trial which informs the participants that half of the group will receive medicines which have a strong anecdotal history of affectively treating the disease and the other half of the study will receive a placebo (which might otherwise be referred to as a death warrant).
Yours is an excellent question, and the and the answer is: No. That would be unethical. In fact, it is not the first time that a drug, or even a surgical procedure, is given before proper trials are made (on pigs if we’te talking of surgery) in the haste of halting a deadly menace.
Second question: Maybe, but I believe (I’m a doctor although not an infectivologist) it almost certanly would not prevent the disesease to occur.
Mind that the toxicity of Chloroquine (OH-Cloroquine is its less toxic derivate) is a long term one, and here we’re talking of only a few days of treatment. OH-ClQ is taken for years by AR patients (and other self-hymmune diseases, such as Lupus).
Sorry, AR is Italian. In English is RA).
Thank you Dr. I apologize to one and all for my typos. Proofreading one’s own compositions is always the most difficult kind of proofreading and one does not expect all of these dictation errors, although I should be used to this phenomena by now.
I am not a doctor, and I don’t even play one on the Internet, but I am an actual retired lawyer who practiced law in Ontario for 42 years and I think that conducting clinical trials of the effectiveness of HCQ, used in combination with Z-Pak, on COVID-19 sufferers is unethical.
I am creative, but I can’t imagine a proper legal waiver which anyone participating in such a clinical trial would sign
Desperate diseases require desperate remedies. I was involved in studies dealing with chronic pain in end-stage AIDs patients in the mid 90s. Once you witness that level of suffering, pesky little ethical dilemmas don’t seem that important. Of course, someone trained in grievance studies would make it the main focus of THEIR life. 🙁
I would not call the evidence merely anecdotal. There are actual “case studies”. There is also a study in China that indicates efficacy.
A shame that some Governors and Health Officials in positions of power are not only refusing to deviate from an inapplicable Standard Medical Model but has gone so far as to attempt to block treatment.
I would not call the evidence merely anecdotal. There are actual “case studies”. There is also a study in China that indicates efficacy.
A shame that some Governors and Health Officials in positions of power are not only refusing to deviate from an inapplicable Standard Medical Model but has gone so far as to attempt to block treatment.
Most Americans are willing to understand enhanced risk to fight this pandemic.
What is wrong with this person? Doesn’t she care that Trump said this is a good idea?
More good news. My barber finished his 10 day quarantine in Czechoslovakia and managed to find a flight back home to LA. Now I won’t have to learn how to make a man bun and don’t want to be one of those bald guys with a pony tail. I’ve been going with the Boris Johnson look but am now running out of balloons to comb my hair with.
Great Maker, a democrat gives credit to Pres. Trump? Did hell freeze over?
More importantly, did it cure her of being a Democrat?
So, will Ohio state Rep. Tavia Galonski (D) tell Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsettto (D) to drop dead for having survived using hydroxychloroquine ?
https://twitter.com/RepGalonski/status/1246981735876870144
“Shouldn’t the the clinical trials be limited to whether these drugs are an effective prophylaxis?”
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That, I think would be an ethical study going forward, however, there are enough people taking Chloroquine/Hydroxy for other conditions that a survey type study might answer the question.
FWIW, FDA seems to be fast tracking approvals for CoVID-19 drug studies.
“The FDA has approved a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravenous (IV) tocilizumab (Actemra) plus standard of care in hospitalized adult patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia, according to Genentech, the agent’s developer.”
From the article above on the LA governor…
“Although concerns over coronavirus and its ramifications didn’t manifest until March in the U.S., U.S. governors were briefed February 9 at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting by members of Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force on the growing threat of the respiratory virus.”
The February 9th briefing needs to be added to the timeline of actions taken by the Trump Administration.
This is an interesting article – https://gizmodo.com/latest-coronavirus-science-heart-and-brain-damage-may-1842708731 h/t Instapundit. Good points with links to other articles.
1. Heart and brain issues are connected to C19.
2. A late March study in China found that using HCQ alone had no effect. But, why would anyone trust any study in China? Is it another way of getting back at President Trump? Most articles on the drug mention a combo with another drug or zinc.
Cured or Recovered?