Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Now we have the conversation:
"It was a very nice gesture on behalf of President Putin and I could have said 'no, thank you' or I could have said 'thank you.' And it was a large plane of very high-quality medical supplies. And I said, 'I'll take it,'" Trump said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/politics/russia-medical-supplies-us-propaganda/index.html

President Putin offer to provide medical equipment to the Trump administration was accepted by Mr Trump and an A124 Ruslan cargo plane will land today:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/russia-sends-medical-supplies-coronavirus-159009
Russia also sent medical teams to Italy as well. 
What does all of this mean? Their early containment efforts worked and they have an abundance of supplies to provide not only for their own country but for other  countries as well. Mr Putin heeded the warnings of his intell services early in January and acted accordingly whereas our president ignored his and we're all screwed as a result.

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, thanks for the laugh of the day.

Darian , you're right there with this guy:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490758-georgia-governor-says-he-didnt-know-asymptomatic-people-could-spread

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, actually the part that I found really amusing was 74 (Leftist) journalism professors. Their opinions are less than worthless.

The only opinion that is less than useless here is yours...

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, you're "hurting my feelings".

Well then, why don't you read some posts from Richie, I'm sure that'll cheer you up!

Good to see Google is in the fight and they took down the BS post from Trump's personal lawyer, RUDY, who claimed the antimalarial drug was "proven" as a treatment for coronavirus. The latter drug is a perennial favorite of Trump (he's a big "fan" of it) and, of course Fox news...
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/490865-google-to-invest-65-million-to-fight-coronavirus-misinformation 

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

So this drug that is now Approved by the FDA, the Hydroxychloroquin with Azithromycin given along with it, which Trump himself was touting, and the one that is proving ALL Over the world to be curing the people it is given to, and which is being touted by Some Expert Infectious Disease specialists like Dr. Steven Smith as proving to give incredible, amazing results to the patients he is prescribing it to,  is NOT doing what these experts are saying it is doing?

Do you NOT think it should be given Dr.  Kaufman??  

"I would like to see who at FDA's [Medical Countermeasures Initiative] signed off on this EUA despite the total lack of scientific evidence that chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine are beneficial in the treatment of COVID-19," tweeted Luciana Borio, who served as FDA's acting chief scientist between 2015 and 2017. "EUA is supposed to be issued when the evidence indicates that benefits outweigh the risks."
"Hydroxychloroquine, which is already available commercially in the United States, is commonly used to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The drug also has been touted as a therapy for coronavirus by an unusual assortment of investors, TV correspondents and even some advisers to the White House — including some advocates who overstated their claims and credentials — and been championed by guests on Fox News."
"Federal officials also have privately complained that Trump's focus on anti-malaria drugs has distracted from efforts to investigate more promising therapies, and several scientists immediately panned the announcement."
In the management of Covid19 in China, the timely link from pubmed that I posted in the politics forum yesterday states,
"Early antiviral treatment could alleviate disease severity and prevent illness progression, and we found lopinavir/ritonavir combined with abidol showed antiviraleffects in Covid19." And nothing about  Hydroxychloroquin.
Color me skeptical:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Who cares what some Obama appointee of the FDA thinks of the FDA now?  

She's utterly irrelevant.  FDA has ALWAYS taken forever to get anything done, just like MOST bureaucracies.  I don't a flying shit what Luciana Borio thinks.

Dr. Steven Smith a virologist who is dolng testing on 72 patients has stated that HCQ is doing things and SAVING People who WERE on ventilators at his facility, 20 patients who no longer NEED the ventilators.  He said the odds that all of them could come off the ventilators was ASTRONOMICAL.  

He said the probability of all 20 NOT NEEDING the ventilators, was on the order of 0.0000X percent.  

A place in Seattle is doing a controlled study themselves, and appear to be having similar results, so when this flippant arrogant Bitch characterizes well renowned doctors in the field as "guests on Foxnews who have overstated their credentials", she can shove her insults up her fat ass.  

She's your typical, pencil pushing, self-important bureaucratic asshole.  

"One reason for caution could be a study published earlier this month by Chinese researchers in the Journal of Zhejiang University (Medical Sciences). They randomized 30 patients to receive hydroxychloroquine plus conventional treatment or standard care alone for 5 days. No benefit for the drug was seen for clinical measures or viral clearance."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85621

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Oh, and you give a damn what a bunch of lying Communists are saying?  Tells me where your brains are.

Don't you get it.  The Chinese have been lying all along and the leftist press, these dirtbags have the gall to tout China as being so wonderful in all of this.

Those ASSHOLES Caused this outbreak by not telling the world that this virus was what it was.

OUR gov't tried to send our CDC over there to get involved early on and their leaders told the CDC they couldn't come in.

They kept pertinent information from the WORLD.  Look what happened in Italy and Spain and you want to tell me anything about what the Chinese have said.  

If they are talking they are lying!   

BTW, France is having wonderful results with the HCQ and AZM.  

Are you unaware of that?

Oh wait, I forget that you watch CNN exclusively so they don't tell you things that might POSSIBLY place this President in a good light.  

Their goal first and foremost is DESTROY HIM at ALL costs.

Another wingnut conspiracy for an explanation and that figures, coming from you.
So when the Chinese doctors said:
"Early antiviral treatment could alleviate disease severity and prevent illness progression, and we found lopinavir/ritonavir combined with abidol showed antiviraleffects in Covid19." And nothing about  Hydroxychloroquin, they were lying, too?

Oh, and about those French "studies", Rich is going to love this guy:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/in-france-controversial-doctor-stirs-coronavirus-debate-156889