re: Pretty confident my dad is about to die - The Covid blues

Terrible story. I hate to hear this.

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They prescribed him coagulates, remsidivir,

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his kidneys started failing

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Side effects:

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Renal
Very common (10% or more): Decreased CrCl (based on Cockcroft-Gault formula; up to 19%), decreased estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; up to 18%), increased creatinine (up to 15%)

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It's probably too late but your dad should have been prescribed monoclonal antibodies upon a positive CV test simply based on age alone.

Monoclonal antibodies and therapeutics work when implemented early.

This is a case of medical malpractice and it's being done to hundreds of thousands of people by so call doctors that continue to put their heads in the sand.

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Infusion therapy is really the thing to do if you are at risk upon diagnosis, some places wait until it is too late to get on that.

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Exactly. They wait too late in Louisiana hospitals. But in Florida you can avoid the hospitals upon a positive COVID test and get an immediate monoclonal antibody infusion at one of the sites set up by Governor Ron Desantis.

Desantis is overtly circumventing the hospital system because they are purposefully slow to administer monoclonal antibodies.

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They did this with my buddy’s mom in Knoxville last week and it worked.

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It is very effective. It is sad to see a patient be admitted into our ICU and none of this has been done. A remember one patient who had lung cancer, they just sent him home when he was positive. He had no chance by the time he got to us, I was furious.

Sorry to hear of your families situation, it sounds like you’re at a point where you have to start demanding other things be tried, Doctor has written him off so what does the doctor have to lose trying other medicines.
I’ve had 6 family members and close friends or associates that have had problems with COVID. A couple were back to normal in 2-3 days but 3-4 had complications, some similar to your dads. They have all recovered with one still about a week from being back at work. I can tell you that in each one, without regard to age or condition, they were given Ivermectin, Azithromycin, high potency Vit C, Vit D3, zinc, Quercetin 250mg, mucinex.doxycycline, Prednisone, HCQ tabs 200mg, Regeneron, A couple of them were in rough shape and had pneumonia, all of them didn’t have to take all the mentioned medicines, the worse cases got Regeneron and HCQ and Prednisone. But all their treatments worked on them all and they are all at home or back at work.
Try to get the doctor to tell you why they won’t try these medicines

I’m sorry to hear this. Stay strong, as best you can, for your family through these trying times.

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Why in your estimation are patients being sent home with no therapeutics or an infusion if they fit the profile?

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I don't know, sometimes people just don't follow up and don't get the infusions or therapy before it is too late. The health care system I work in is very proactive in starting it for at risk people but we are a big regional hospital with resources. That case was at a very small rural facility but still they should have known better, they literally did nothing and it didn't seem like they tried. It was pure negligence.

He might have been too late to,prescribe for early preventative but it’s not too late to try it for the COVID treatment, it’s a cheap, drug that has been used for years, it’s clear the political juggling at the FDA AND CDC have tried to hold it back and discourage its use because a .25 cent pill could hurt the money they’re getting from Pfizer and Moderna to force their drugs into patients.
OP should get a lawyer involved to motivate the doctor so he would see legal reasons to try other treatments before he loses his dad.

And the small rural hospitals where I live indeed have the treatment and are advertising such. So yeah should we need it.

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They tested him at the hospital and sent him home - said he was doing fine.

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I'm sorry to hear about you father.

Some people need to be shot for not sending folks to get the monoclonal antibodies at the start.

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I want to hear more, isn’t this a cholesterol medication?

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It is.
A small study has shown it has an amazing ability to turn around severe cases and get folks off vents in just a few days.