Gateway Pundit: Rio Giardinieri, 52, contracted the coronavirus COVID-19, he thinks when he was at a conference in New York. He is vice president of a company that makes cooking equipment for high-end restaurants around the world, but suddenly he was too tired to do much of anything.
He had a fever “for five days, horrendous back pain, headache, cough, and tiredness and was was sleeping about 15 hours a day — when he’s used to getting five hours a night,” FOX-10 reported. It got so bad that after a week in the hospital, Giardinieri said goodbye to his wife and children.
He says his doctors did not want to see him so he drove to Joe DiMaggio hospital in South Florida, near his home, and nearly passed out waiting to get tested. Doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and coronavirus. They put him on oxygen in the ICU but he says he was still unable to breathe. After more than a week, he says doctors told him there was really nothing more they could do. Friday evening, he said goodbye to his wife and three children.
“I was at the point where I was barely able to speak and breathing was very challenging. I really thought my end was there. I had been through nine days of solid pain and for me, the end was there. So I made some calls to say in my own way goodbye to my friends and family.” A dear friend immediately sent him a recent article about hydroxychloroquine, an old anti-malaria medicine proven successful to treat COVID-19 patients overseas, and insisted he take the drug.
But Giardinieri wasn’t done fighting, so he got in touch with an infectious disease doctor. “He gave me all the reasons why I would probably not want to try it because there are no trials, there’s no testing, it was not something that was approved. And I said look I don’t know if I’m going to make it until the morning because at that point I really thought I was coming to the end because I couldn’t breathe anymore. He agreed and authorized the use of it and 30 minutes later the nurse gave it to me,” he told FOX-10.
”An hour after an IV with the medicine, he says his heart felt like it was beating out of his chest. “They had to come in and get me calmed down and take care of me. MORE
Here is some of the most hopeful news I saw yesterday. Look at the chart near the bottom of the page: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
Dr. Swampy Deep State was last seen ordering some take out Wuhan Bat Soup to prove his thesis that it is wrong to call it a Chinese virus. He’ll be getting back to MSNBC with the results of his test results in a year or so. Stay bated.
Thank God President Trump passed the Right to Try Law.
What I wish?
I wish comprehensive demographic statistics on those who have tested positive were available, there don’t seem t be any available (comprehensive and confirmed cases).
I also wish that the number of cases being reported were actually the real confirmed ones, not including those simply presumed to have it when it could easily be something else and those who have simply been in contact with a confirmed case but don’t exhibit any serious symptoms that would justify testing them.
FWIW, I read today that 9 out of ten that are actually tested -presumably because they have serious symptoms as the main reason – turn out to be negative for it.
But my wishes never seem to come true.
When you’re dying, you don’t worry if a medicine has had “human trials” and “studies”.
►”what I wish?”
I wish that the stats showed how many of those that’ve died had which underlying illnesses (co-morbidities), viz. heavy smoker, cancer, COPD, etc.
Said treatment not be approved until the drug companies test it with a buffer added, so they can get a patent and charge the gov’t billions for its use.
Same old, same old.
Chloroquine and z-pak…….
If I catch the WuHan Coronavirus……
I’ll ask my doctor to prescribe them off label (compassionate useage).
(I do have to admit that they were prescribed to me two times before……on trips to Africa for malaria prevention and travelers diarrhea.)
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS TREATMENT FOR CORONAVIRUS IS NOT UNIVERSALLY IN USE.
I wonder if this stuff is also effective against regular flu? Wouldn’t that put a hole in big phama’s bucket?
►Ed357
“studies have shown☺” that zinc (which you can purchase in the vitamin section of your local grocery/pharmacy works in a similar manner (maybe better) to azithromycin, with fewer side-effects.
As I understand it, they both interfere with the virus’ mRNA synthesis, thereby killing the virus and not permitting it to replicate.
If I get sick I hope a biker gang plugs up all my orifices.
(well … sicker)
@boron….
I’ve heard that Chloroquine and zinc works……also…..
I’ve taken chloroquine/z-pak……..I’ll stay with it for now…..
For what it’s worth…..my doc has me on vitamin d and magnesium….for immune boosting, etc.
Thanks.
Medical professionals are conditioned to wait for FDA approval. Trials can take years and hundreds of millions of dollars. They are also heavily manipulated, just like the EPA tests. Researchers routinely cherry-pick participants in order to assure better results. Physicians seeking insurance approval of a novel procedure will screen patients to get higher success rates.
It is frustrating to watch a physician or “expert” explain, in a time of immediate crisis, that we must wait at least a year for a vaccine or several years to prove a novel treatment, even when it involves routinely prescribed medications, often taken with each other. That this man’s physician hesitated to prescribe the treatment, when the alternative was agonizing death, proves the level of conditioning medical professionals have been subjected to.
The Right to Use Act, while a laudable attempt, has found little acceptance among medical practitioners. When I mentioned it to my wife’s oncologist a few months after its passing into law, he didn’t know what I was referring to. It had not been discussed among his colleagues or in professional conferences.