Florida
Related: About this forumOMG...Dr. DeSantis is giving out meds to cure the virus...
...on TV now pushing self-admin of whatever you want.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)mucifer
(23,547 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)...and wants to give it to hospitals to try on patients who want it...
No kidding.
janterry
(4,429 posts)Montefiore Medical Center in New York has already started seeing the surge of Covid-19 patients that public health experts have been warning about. The hospital is participating in the remdesivir trial and is giving Covid-19 patients chloroquine. All of our patients get put on chloroquine, as well as on antiretrovirals. Were using Kaletra. Different places are using different antiretrovirals, says Liise-anne Pirofski, chief of infectious diseases at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore. Everybody gets that, unless they have some contraindication.
https://www.wired.com/story/an-old-malaria-drug-may-fight-covid-19-and-silicon-valleys-into-it/
Sancho
(9,070 posts)...but he said that people had a right to try it if they wanted.
I assume that would lead to a lot of confounding results - not to mention a run on some drugs.
If the USF Med School wanted to try something because they knew what they were doing it would be fine. Sounded to me that DeSantis was using Trump U. "I want people to have it available if they want it." was what he said.
We left FL (lived there close to 20 years) about 3.5 years ago.
Never had the pleasure of not voting for DeSantis. Poor FL! He's made a mess and I am watching EVERY day as the case numbers go up in the city that we lived in .
It's going to be a disaster.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Lock him up!
DEbluedude
(816 posts)You can't make this shit up.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)...and didn't really have much to say about spring break beaches other than it would be hard to enforce breaking them up.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)but its not like he couldnt have tried to enforce it and executed the order before it got bad on the beaches knowing it was going to happen
Here is the mayor in Chicago at the closed lakefront
Even here without really warm or sunny weather yet it had to be done to keep people apart
mitch96
(13,907 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)...it very irresponsible for a governor to play doctor...
Lunabell
(6,082 posts)DeSantis is trump's little butt buddy and won't say or do anything against him. Business over people. Typically GOP.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)2:21 p.m.
The CDC wants people to stop ingesting non-pharmaceutical chloroquine products
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory on Saturday warning against use of non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine.
The health agency was alerted about an Arizona couple in their 60s who put a fish tank-cleaning chemical, chloroquine phosphate, into a soft drink and ingested it to stave off infection of the novel coronavirus. The husband died in a hospital and his wife was last reported to be in critical condition.
Clinicians should advise patients and the public that chloroquine, and the related compound hydroxychloroquine, should be used only under the supervision of a healthcare provider as prescribed medications, the CDC said. While President Trump has been endorsing the promise of the antimalarials based on anecdotal reports, there is currently no FDA-approved prevention of covid-19, the agency reminded the public.