[ April 19, 2024 ]
The media (even Fox) calls it a controversial drug. Why? Because the media doesn’t like it or want it to succeed. The drug has been in use since 1930, there is nothing controversial about it. The Democrats want to prolong this house arrest and panic for many months.
Huge props to DeSantis for putting Floridians before leftist politics.
Florida’s DeSantis orders 1 million doses of controversial anti-malaria drug before nearing coronavirus peak
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on decision to expand stay-at-home order, belief coronavirus spread at Super Bowl
Gov. Ron DeSantis issues statewide order for Floridians to stay-at-home amid COVID-19 pandemic
One million doses of hydroxychloroquine are expected to arrive in Tallahassee, Fla. by Wednesday as the state anticipates reaching its peak in coronavirus infections weeks sooner than initially projected.
Florida is expected to reach its peak of coronavirus infections on April 21, when about 242 people in the state could be dying per day, according to revised projections from the University of Washington’s School of Medicine released Monday.
The university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which has been used by the White House coronavirus task force to form its coronavirus response, initially predicted the outbreak in Florida to peak about two weeks later, on May 3, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Shipments of the drug originally developed to prevent and treat malaria will arrive at select Florida hospitals mostly in Miami-Dade, Broward, Orange, and Hillsborough counties, according to Florida’s emergency management office.
“This is something that a physician recommends under supervision,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a video conference with a doctor from Broward County who has used the drug to treat COVID-19 patients, according to WPEC in West Palm Beach.
Amneal Pharmaceuticals was sending a massive shipment of hydroxychloroquine to Florida. The Israeli company, Teva Pharmaceuticals, is also shipping hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, an antibiotic commonly known as a Z-Pak, to Florida from India, WPTV in West Palm Beach reported. India initially blocked its export last week. Both drugs combined have been used to treat COVID-19 patients in the state.
“I think we need to have every option that’s available for these patients,” Dr. Sunil Kumar with Broward Health said at the press conference. “Some of these patients are very, very sick.”
DeSantis said Florida has tested nearly 140,000 people for COVID-19 with the help of the state National Guard, Department of Health and Division of Emergency Management.
Florida had the eighth highest number of infections in the country, and the tenth highest number of fatalities by Wednesday morning, recording at least 14,747 confirmed cases, with at least 296 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
As the debate over the efficacy of using an anti-malaria drug to treat COVID-19 patients continues, DeSantis is taking precautions to ensure a sudden surge in coronavirus cases doesn’t cause shortages in medical supplies and overwhelm hospital staff.
Dr. Oz gives update on US hydroxychloroquine trials to treat COVID-19VideoPresident Trump has been building the federal stockpile of hydroxychloroquine despite medical experts warning against using the drug to treat COVID-19 patients without further research.
In a White House press briefing Sunday, Trump once again threw his support behind treating COVID-19 patients with the drug while recognizing further studies would need to be done before doctors could confirm its safety and effectiveness.
He acknowledged remarks made by Dr. Patrice Harris, the president of the American Medical Association, who has stressed hydroxychloroquine’s high risk of causing heart rhythm problems. She said she personally would not prescribe the drug to COVID-19 patients because the risks of severe side effects were “great and too significant to downplay.”
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration authorized pulling hydroxychloroquine from the federal stockpile of medical supplies to treat members of the general public last week. The Department of Health and Human Services also cleared hydroxychloroquine and two similar drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, for “compassionate use” on extremely ill COVID-19 patients who have exhausted other treatment methods.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has also questioned the drug’s efficacy in treating COVID-19 patients. He had warned against overbuying the medication amid the coronavirus pandemic to prevent shortages for patients who rely on the drug to treat the symptoms of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
On Saturday, he reportedly clashed with White House economic adviser Peter Navarro, who has been working to source the drug from around the world as well as ramp up domestic production capabilities within the U.S., Axios first reported. During the heated exchange, Fauci reportedly claimed there was only “anecdotal evidence” that shows the drug is effective in treating coronavirus patients. Studies in France and South Korea have been questioned because they did not include control groups.
DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order on April 1 after balking at the idea for weeks, initially deferring the decision to close all non-essential business to local authorities.Two days earlier, he had issued a “safer at home” order for four counties – Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe – in South Florida, the hot spot of the outbreak in the state. By then, the governor had ordered a two-week halt on all vacation rentals, as well as implemented highway checkpoints and sent the National Guard to major airports to order travelers from Louisiana and the New York City area to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival in Florida or risk spending 60 days in jail.
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10 Comments
4 years ago
Smart move Gov. DeSantis!
Nevada Governor Sisolak Found Hoarding
Coronavirus Treatment Drug
Published April 3, 2020 at 7:30am
By Jacob Engels
(Sisolak banned it from the public, then horded it for use for incarcerated prisoners, then quietly allowed physicians to prescribe it to the pubic. If it didn’t work, you wouldn’t do that…)
4 years ago
DERP
4 years ago
Governor DeSantis is a rePUblican who wants to help those who are infected by covid-19, get better. DemocRAT governors and mayors are banning the use of hydroxychloroquine, because President Trump approves using it as a treatment. The democRATS want people to die.
4 years ago
I don’t know very many experts who really are experts.
“High risk of causing heart rhythm problems. She said she personally would not prescribe the drug to COVID-19 patients because the risks of severe side effects were “great and too significant to downplay.””
But it’s fine for malaria. Yeah what an expert.
OK to die from covoid however.
4 years ago
Reply to
TARDRE
Long term use can have minor side effects like vision problems, the short term use for this virus can only be beneficial based on the now millions who have been treated with it around the world and who have had amazing results. DemoRats want and need an ugly amount of deaths so they can take back the WH and they don’t care who dies for the power they are so hungry for.
4 years ago
“The drug has been in use since 1930, there is nothing controversial about it.”
But it hasn’t been widely used against this extraordinarily/exceptionally contagious/deadly virus which only broke out several months ago.
Caution is the better part of valor.
COVID-19 isn’t just a virus that popped up out of nature naturally; it’s biological weapon carefully designed to be just as deadly as it is and to cause exactly the chaos it has.
4 years ago
Thank G-D for Gov. DeSantis, the alternative would have been at a sex party with male prostitutes and unconscious from a meth hangover.
4 years ago
Most excellent move on the part of DeSantis ESPECIALLY because it is now being made known that the medical establishment has been TREATING THE VIRUS THE WRONG WAY! It has now become known that MALARIA bacteria does the very same thing to the HEMOGLOBIN in blood cells as what the COVID-19 does, which is to destroy/eat the hemoglobin and thereby starve all the body’s organs of oxygen which is dependent on HEMOGLOBIN.
THIS IS THE REASON THAT THE DRUG WORKS – TRUMP HAS BEEN RIGHT ALL ALONG – WE MUST USE THE DRUG AND QUIT THE SHENANIGANS!!!
Thank you Governor DeSantis
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4 years ago
Heads up Fellow Americans! Trump has been right all along about the malaria medication, because the COVID19 attacks the same thing that malaria does. Here’s just one of the main articles that explains the details, but it’s a bit on the “dry” side, sounding more complex & detailed than we need to know as non medical personnel:
Verify the article and then Spread the word.
The Deep State does NOT want the truth out, which is why Trump & others in the know are hoarding the HYDROXY……. drug – regardless of opposition. Ask yourself: Why would opposition be so strong against “trying the drug on everyone”, especially after the NY Doctor had 700 successful uses of this drug treatment, which cured 100% of his patients so far!
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4 years ago
FIRST THE DRUG MUST BECOME “NEW AND IMPROVED” BY DRUG BARONS. THEN THE PRICE INCREASED TO LOCK IN THE CASH FLOW FROM GOV. TO DRUG COMPANY SHAREHOLDERS…
