Florida man with coronavirus says drug touted by Trump saved his life

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Florida man with coronavirus says drug touted by Trump saved his life​

By Tamar Lapin

March 22, 2020

A Florida man diagnosed with coronavirus claims he was saved from certain death by an anti-malaria drug touted as a possible treatment by President Trump.

Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in New York.

Doctors at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida diagnosed him with the coronavirus and pneumonia and put him on oxygen in the ICU, he told the outlet.

After more than a week, doctors told him there was nothing more they could do and, on Friday evening, Giardinieri said goodbye to his wife and three children.

“I was at the point where I was barely able to speak and breathing was very challenging,” Giardinieri said. “I really thought my end was there.”

Then a friend sent him a recent article about hydroxychloroquine, a prescription drug that’s been used to treat malaria for decades and auto-immune diseases like lupus.

Overseas studies have found it to be promising as a treatment for COVID-19, though it hasn’t been approved by health officials.

Trump last week said he was instructing the FDA to fast-track testing of hydroxychloroquine and a related drug, chloroquine, as treatment for COVID-19.

Giardinieri said he contacted an infectious disease doctor about the drug.

“He gave me all the reasons why I would probably not want to try it because there are no trials, there’s no testing, it was not something that was approved,” said Giardinieri.

“And I said, ‘Look, I don’t know if I’m going to make it until the morning,’ because at that point I really thought I was coming to the end because I couldn’t breathe anymore,” Giardinieri continued.

“He agreed and authorized the use of it and 30 minutes later the nurse gave it to me.”

After about an hour on an IV with the medicine, Giardinieri said, it felt like . . .
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Do you think the fishbowl chemicals contained anything else drcube?

What amount of chloroquine was in what he ingested?

Why does the Democrat, deBlasio want chrloroquine so bad?

Do you think we should do a double-blind long-term prospective study before use? (Then society could criticize “Trump” for “holding-back treatment”.)

Do you know that physicians have a LOT of experience using chloroquine and hydroxycloroquine? (Admittedly not for Corona Virus. But just as admittedly not as fishbowl chemicals coupled with other agents either.)

Do you think there are any self-destructive news people or politicians that
are UPSET or at least seem angry that this might HELP the country?

Did you see the link from your own article page supporting President Trump’s glimmer of hope that he has been made aware of and passed it on to Americans? (Although the article itself refuses to mention President Trump’s name in that article except on a photo caption.)

 
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Yes, the man died and his wife is in critical condition. I myself would not ingest
any chemical used to clean a fish tank. I am not sure what this husband and
wife were thinking.
 
Cathoholic said:
Do you think the fishbowl chemicals contained anything else drcube?
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I’m sure it did. That’s why you don’t just start digesting random chemicals without advise of a doctor.
7_Sorrows said:
Yes, the man died and his wife is in critical condition. I myself would not ingest
any chemical used to clean a fish tank. I am not sure what this husband and
wife were thinking.
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Well, they heard Trump on the news and then decided to try for themselves.
 
Cathoholic said:
Do you think the fishbowl chemicals contained anything else drcube?
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drcube . . . .
I’m sure it did. That’s why you don’t just start digesting random chemicals without advise of a doctor.
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As for me?

I don’t think I would ingest random chemicals WITH the advise of a doctor either.
 
When people take medicine prescribed by a doctor, it is prescribed in certain levels safe for a human to consume. I believe some people in Nigeria also got very sick
by self administering a medicine mentioned in the press and they took too much hoping to prevent them from getting sick with the coronavirus.

It should be common sense not to consume a product used to clean fish tanks.
There probably was a warning label not to ingest this product which they either
ignored or did not read.
 
7_Sorrows said:
When people take medicine prescribed by a doctor, it is prescribed in certain levels safe for a human to consume. I believe some people in Nigeria also got very sick
by self administering a medicine mentioned in the press and they took too much hoping to prevent them from getting sick with the coronavirus.

It should be common sense not to consume a product used to clean fish tanks.
There probably was a warning label not to ingest this product which they either
ignored or did not read.
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No doubt. It’s a warning to everyone who thinks they know more than a doctor.
 
It is a warning to anyone to read the warnings on chemical products you buy at the store anyway.
 
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