This news from Hong Kong seems like a big deal.

[Bleacher Creature]

Link to tweet

It's a small sample, so take it with a grain of salt, but there's been a lot of speculation that some of the most severe cases could be tied to a person's viral load. If that's the case, this new treatment could end up saving a lot of lives.

[Meowmee]

1. I don't understand why they didn't just do that right away

I read someone’s tweet who had it a couple of months ago- she said she went to the emergency room with breathing problems and pneumonia, denied a test 3 x. she was admitted and they gave her 2 antiviral drugs and she got better in two days. She finally was tested positive then.

When I was diagnosed with pneumonia at the field hospital four weeks ago my doctor had told me to go there because they were giving people hydroxy chloroquine and the earlier you get treatment the better.

But when I got there they said only if you’re bad enough to be in the hospital with low pulse ox etc. I had already started Z pack because I have that at home. I talked with her after she reviewed the x-rays and she said it looks like covid pneumonia.

I asked her can you give me some antivirals to stop it from getting more severe, she was saying she can’t do that it is so hard to prescribe them at home etc. so I had to go through 2-3 weeks worrying if I’m going to get so severe and die etc. I had to monitor myself constantly and be in touch with her. I am still recovering from it all after 4 weeks now.

Basically they were saying they’re gonna let you get to the point where you are almost dead – almost no treatment before that if you are not in hospital.

[peacebuzzard]

2. Glad you are better,

That is horrifying you went through that. Take care.

[Meowmee]

4. Thanks💕

It has been the most stressful thing maybe ever for me and I have been through several life threatening health crises. I just hope my back pain reduces. I am still having back pain I don’t know if it’s from the pneumonia anymore or something else causing it as well.

[LisaL]

3. None are approved by the FDA to treat covid.

Remdesivir is only approved for those with severe covid.
I don't like the idea of having to be nearly dead before being admitted to a hospital either.

[Meowmee]

5. Yes but in this event that should have been overridden imo

Some people were getting them anyway when they went to the hospital and were bad enough to be treated even only briefly, it helped them. So why wait around until you’re almost dead and have to be on a ventilator etc. I also wonder how many people ordered it themselves or got a doctor to prescribe it somehow and it helped them. We are never going to know.

[stopdiggin]

10. understand your sentiment, but

let's please not be promoting the idea that people should "order" drugs and prescribe for themselves. This is seriously bad advice. Let your doctor do the prescribing. Please.

[Meowmee]

14. Nope

my doctors have made very serious errors numerous times with me and with family members, causing fatality in one case and close to it with me. They will never have my complete trust again, not that they ever did really because I question most of what they say. And if I’m going to be left to die which is basically what could have happened here I will find a way to get what I need. I have already ordered meds for my kitties that way and family members have done it for themselves to avoid the exorbitant costs.

[stopdiggin]

15. And you have every right to decide your own course

But I think you are making a PROFOUND mistake in trying to influence others to follow your course.
(if in fact that is what you propose.)
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[Meowmee]

16. I did not encourage anyone to do anything nt

[stopdiggin]

17. understood. I just think people attempting to self prescibe

for something as serious as Covid .. Just way, way off in the weeds.

[Meowmee]

18. Wait until you get it, hopefully never, and get no treatment

[stopdiggin]

19. problem with that perspective is ..

I probably know 15 people currently that are convinced that they've "already had it." (very unlikely, by the way!) Now imagine if all those misguided souls are running around trying to get their hands on dangerous items such as chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and Remdesivir? (and god knows what else they've heard about on the internet!) You may have some idea of what you are doing. I can assure you that a lot of people out there do NOT!

[Meowmee]

21. It's a realistic perspective if you're not going to get

It’s a realistic perspective if you’re not going to get any treatment, the solution is to stop denying the average people treatment and start getting better treatments now. I would not assume those people didn’t have it, kind of a strange assumption on your part considering what we know. I will say again, I wasn’t encouraging anybody to do anything I’m not sure why you attached to that notion like glue.

[Initech]

6. I'm all for anything that helps kill this thing!

[greenjar_01]

7. It's the 400th miracle cure of the cycle

But yes, I'm sure it's of supreme importance.

Peer reviewed studies.

PERIODT.

[Yavin4]

8. Stories like these frustrate me to a great degree.

Because there does not seem to be any international coordination in this fight nor is there information sharing nor is there some sort of international framework for evaluating new remedies or vaccines, all we are left with are these new stories tauting the latest cure or discovery or new hope without the new discovery being subjected to an international standard.

But, it hits the news. it hits social media. There's a splashy headline, and then poof! Nothing. We never hear about it again.

[stopdiggin]

11. I think there's a lot of information sharing

going on within the medical community. Sharing this information with the media .. is fraught with problems, for obvious reasons.

[SunSeeker]

9. If it's not a double blind with placebo study, it's not good enough. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

13. To say nothing

of the lists of possible side effects that consume most TV ads, some worse than death or including death....LOL

[NameAlreadyTaken]

12. The FDA should look into this, STAT

[Cha]

20. KR!