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To: Investor2 who wrote (9474)4/26/2020 1:26:21 PM
From: Kirk ©  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 26881
 
Hopefully these anecdotal treatments can get quick, scientific studies done to help save lives and get people back working again.

From what I understand, one or more of the studies using Hydroxycholoquine was terminated because too many who got the drug died or had significant side effects such as heart arrhythmia. If they can design the studies to eliminate patients with those issues, then it could be a big help.

dicardiology.com

It sounds like too that it is best to treat patients early before the virus does serious damage to vital organs where MDs have to find what treatment to fix the different damage while also looking at how to rid the body of the virus.



To: Investor2 who wrote (9474)4/26/2020 2:22:28 PM
From: Kirk ©  Respond to of 26881
 
Interesting front page story about a vet and his family that didn't seem to get good care at all if we were ready for this. The story is more about the trauma the family suffered but what interested me is how they did the right thing in going to the hospital but it did not save their lives since they were sent home.

Side by side - Article from: The Mercury News - April 26, 2020
A family is brought together by the deaths of their beloved parents, yet remain separated by the deadly disease
And their deaths are only part of the story of how a little-understood infectious disease has ravaged an American family.

Within the Hartwig family alone, the virus appears to have sickened at least five other members, including all three of the couple’s children, a daughter-in-law and Mercedes’ beloved 51-yearold sister who remains on a ventilator in a San Jose hospital...

Instead, Naomi, whose cough was so bad she nearly threw up, was never tested for coronavirus and instead diagnosed with pneumonia. Her brother, Rene, with whom she shares an apartment, would come down with the same symptoms, followed by his wife, Fon, who weeks later was granted the rare privilege of a test, and it proved positive.

But the COVID-19 virus spread so quickly through Northern California that public health officials couldn’t track the path of each infection, so they weren’t aware of the Hartwigs’ mounting tragedy.
Reading the story reminded me I forgot that I woke up one night coughing so hard I did throw up a bit so I went to the bathroom to spit it out, chew some tums to protect my teeth, took some severe cold meds that really helped and brushed my teeth before going back to sleep.