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I'm surprised this guy said this. Maybe he doesn't like his job.

 

 

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White House coronavirus testing czar says it's time to 'move on' from hydroxychloroquine

 

The White House coronavirus testing czar said Sunday it was time to "move on" from the discussions surrounding hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus days after President Donald Trump again defended the drug. 

 

"Hydroxychloroquine needs to be prescribed by a physician," Brett P. Giroir, the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, told NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday. "There may be circumstances — I don't know what they are — where a physician may prescribe it for an individual, but I think most physicians and prescribers are evidence-based and they're not influenced by whatever is on Twitter or anything else."

 

He added: "And the evidence just doesn't show that Hydroxychloroquine is effective, for now. I think we need to move on from that and talk about what is effective."

 

 

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It will be interesting to see if research confirms this Doctor's unconventional approach. 

 

 

 

https://www.hospimedica.com/covid-19/articles/294783429/asthma-medicine-hailed-as-effective-treatment-for-covid-19.html

Asthma Medicine Hailed as Effective Treatment for COVID-19

By HospiMedica International staff writers
Posted on 13 Jul 2020

 

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Budesonide, a medicine used to help prevent the symptoms of asthma, is being touted as the “silver bullet” for COVID-19.
Budesonide, a corticosteroid or steroid, reduces the severity of asthma attack by preventing inflammation in the lungs and can be inhaled directly to the lungs using a nebulizer. Daily use of inhaled budesonide reduces the number and severity of asthma attacks, although it cannot provide relief from an asthma attack that is already underway. Dr. Richard Bartlett, a US doctor, believes that budesonide, otherwise known as the brand name Pulmicor, can successfully treat the coronavirus. Dr. Bartlett claims to have used inhaled, generic budesonide to cure several COVID-19 patients who have vouched for his treatment.

Now, researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT Brisbane, Australia) and the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) are collaborating to test common asthma inhalers as a treatment for COVID-19 infection. The STOIC (STerOids In COVID-19) trial will look at whether asthma inhalers given to people with early stage COVID-19 can reduce progression of respiratory illness and cut emergency department presentations and hospital admissions. Some patients will be given budesonide, while others will be given a placebo. Recruitment for the trial has begun and the researchers will be coordinating trial data analysis, modelling of pathological mechanisms and building COVID-19 maths models to explain and use the clinical trial data to optimize patient treatment. Mathematical modelling by the STOIC study team suggests that the earlier the inhaled steroid treatment is applied, the more people can be stopped from becoming sick.

“Ideally it may be that the corticosteroid therapy would be given to anyone with a new, dry cough, and while they are awaiting their COVID test results,” said associate Professor Nicolau, from the QUT Science and Engineering Faculty School of Mathematical Sciences.

 

https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/covid-patients-defend-dr-bartletts-silver-bullet-medicine-regimen/513-ce3b8c6c-f9b0-424e-8def-6a90e90e3c79

 

https://www.trialsitenews.com/west-texas-doctor-flirts-with-trouble-making-claims-of-silver-bullet-off-label-use-of-inhaled-steroid-as-covid-19-treatment/

 

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Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't  ---  you can't win wt this administration. You are the greatest thing one day and a dope the next.

 


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blasts-birx-she-warns-143740479.html

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President Donald Trump on Monday slammed White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx after the public health official said the pandemic was “extraordinarily widespread.”

Trump’s attack comes shortly after top White House officials admonished House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for undermining trust in Birx.

“So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!”

POLITICO reported last week that Pelosi tore into Birx in closed-door negotiations with administration officials, saying the White House was in “horrible hands” with the public health expert leading the coronavirus taskforce. Pelosi continued her criticism of Birx on Sunday during an appearance on ABC.

 

Past reporting by The New York Times presented Birx as a coronavirus optimist who told Trump that the United States was on its way to flattening its curve like Italy and that outbreaks were easing.

Yet on Sunday, Birx struck a more somber tone when she said the pandemic was entering a new, dangerous phase.

"What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread," Birx told CNN, adding that the pandemic was affecting both urban and rural areas.

Trump’s public attack on Birx was at odds with recent messaging from his top spokespeople, who fiercely defended Birx days ago following Pelosi’s criticism.

“It is deeply irresponsible of Speaker Pelosi to repeatedly try to undermine & create public distrust in Dr Birx, the top public health professional on the coronavirus task force,” White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “It’s also just wrong. Period. Hard stop.”

“Dr. Birx is one of the smartest, honest, most talented professionals I’ve ever worked with. The baseless, political attacks against her and her long record of saving lives and protecting public health are disgusting and shameful,” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

And following The New York Times article that featured Birx’s role in the White House, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany ended her July 21 press briefing with a strong backing of the doctor.

“Dr. Birx is an extraordinary doctor who’s served this country, dedicated her time to serving our country as an Army colonel,” McEnany said. “And it is appalling the attack that I saw on her in the New York Times, based on no facts.

 

 

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19 minutes ago, FrantzHardySwag said:

 

This is promising news, but a couple things to keep in mind. The info seems to be coming from the drug companies, and as far as I can tell these patients haven't fully recovered. The only specific example they cite was able to come off a ventilator in 4 days. They still probably have months of recovery.

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