Inside a Pa. nursing home that gave some veterans hydroxychloroquine even without covid-19 testing
Source: Washington Post
They wrapped the dead in body bags and raced back to treat the living, crammed into a nursing home that, day after day, played the somber sound of taps over the speaker system so the veterans who lived there had the chance to say goodbye.
The nurses and aides at the Southeastern Veterans Center in the suburbs of Philadelphia had watched so much go wrong since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The communal dining that lasted into April, the nights that feverish patients were left to sleep beside roommates who werent sick yet. Merry Christmas, one nurse told another when they finally got N95 masks, weeks into the crisis and just before administrators stopped staffing the isolation rooms because too many people were feared infected.
But what worried some nurses most was what they called the covid cocktail, the widespread, off-label use of one of the antimalarial drugs touted by President Trump in March as a potentially game-changing treatment for covid-19.
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For more than two weeks in April, a drug regimen that included hydroxychloroquine was routinely dispensed at the struggling center, often for patients who had not been tested for covid-19 and for those who suffered from medical conditions known to raise the risk of dangerous side effects, interviews, emails and medical notes and records obtained by The Washington Post show.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/07/covid-cocktail-inside-pa-nursing-home-that-gave-some-veterans-hydroxychloroquine-even-without-covid-19-testing/
erronis
(15,324 posts)Dishonoring our elders, our greater generation.
diva77
(7,651 posts)mayhem are we supposed to endure as we wait for Nov. 3rd?
Rethugs have blood on their hands and everything else.
K&R for exposure
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)After that comes an eleven week lame duck period. The vengeance rampage.
diva77
(7,651 posts)Warpy
(111,317 posts)Oh, please I shouldn't have to spell it out.