OMG...Dr. DeSantis is giving out meds to cure the virus...

[Sancho]

...on TV now pushing self-admin of whatever you want.

[samnsara]

1. they get what they pay for...

[mucifer]

2. what meds? Holy crap

[Sancho]

3. our fearless governor has purchased quinine from Israel (he says from a "friend")

...and wants to give it to hospitals to try on patients who want it...

No kidding.

[janterry]

5. Montefiore Hsp is already doing this

Montefiore Medical Center in New York has already started seeing the surge of Covid-19 patients that public health experts have been warning about. The hospital is participating in the remdesivir trial and is giving Covid-19 patients chloroquine. “All of our patients get put on chloroquine, as well as on antiretrovirals. We’re using Kaletra. Different places are using different antiretrovirals,” says Liise-anne Pirofski, chief of infectious diseases at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore. “Everybody gets that, unless they have some contraindication.”

https://www.wired.com/story/an-old-malaria-drug-may-fight-covid-19-and-silicon-valleys-into-it/

[Sancho]

7. I can understand a controlled study...

...but he said that people had a right to try it if they wanted.

I assume that would lead to a lot of confounding results - not to mention a run on some drugs.

If the USF Med School wanted to try something because they knew what they were doing it would be fine. Sounded to me that DeSantis was using Trump U. "I want people to have it available if they want it." was what he said.

[janterry]

10. oh, yes

We left FL (lived there close to 20 years) about 3.5 years ago.

Never had the pleasure of not voting for DeSantis. Poor FL! He's made a mess and I am watching EVERY day as the case numbers go up in the city that we lived in .

It's going to be a disaster.

[SheltieLover]

4. OMG!

Lock him up!

[DEbluedude]

6. "Florida Man..."

You can't make this shit up.

[Sancho]

8. He also criticized NY for letting people ride on subways...

...and didn't really have much to say about spring break beaches other than it would be hard to enforce breaking them up.

[lunasun]

14. It would have taken township cooperation with a governor stay off the beach order

but it’s not like he couldn’t have tried to enforce it and executed the order before it got bad on the beaches knowing it was going to happen

Here is the mayor in Chicago at the closed lakefront
Even here without really warm or sunny weather yet it had to be done to keep people apart

[mitch96]

9. Didn't a few people already die from taking the wrong amount of this drug? nt

[Sancho]

11. I'm sure a few did...

...it very irresponsible for a governor to play doctor...

[Lunabell]

12. We're screwed In Florida.

DeSantis is trump's little butt buddy and won't say or do anything against him. Business over people. Typically GOP.

[dewsgirl]

13. Royally screwed at that.😔

[Sancho]

15. Update...but no link...

2:21 p.m.
The CDC wants people to stop ingesting non-pharmaceutical chloroquine products
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory on Saturday warning against use of non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine.
The health agency was alerted about an Arizona couple in their 60s who put a fish tank-cleaning chemical, chloroquine phosphate, into a soft drink and ingested it to stave off infection of the novel coronavirus. The husband died in a hospital and his wife was last reported to be in critical condition.
“Clinicians should advise patients and the public that chloroquine, and the related compound hydroxychloroquine, should be used only under the supervision of a healthcare provider as prescribed medications,” the CDC said. While President Trump has been endorsing the promise of the antimalarials based on anecdotal reports, there is currently no FDA-approved prevention of covid-19, the agency reminded the public.