Ben Carson was sick AF with COVID-19

[George K]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/20/937170338/ben-carson-says-he-was-desperately-ill-with-the-coronavirus

Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, took to Facebook on Friday to report he has been "extremely sick" with the coronavirus. But Carson, one of several individuals in the Trump administration who recently contracted the virus, said the worst is behind him.

Carson said his initial symptoms were light, but then he became "desperately ill," and noted that he has "several co-morbidities" that played a role.

"President Trump was following my condition and cleared me for the monoclonal antibody therapy that he had previously received, which I am convinced saved my life," Carson wrote. He said he is now "out of the woods."

[jon-nyc]

I'm glad he's doing better.

But wow, best you or I could do is sign up for the trial and have a 50% shot at getting the monoclonal antibody.

Maybe the FDA needs to rename the 'compassionate use' program the 'VIP use' program.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Ben Carson was sick AF with COVID-19:

"President Trump was following my condition and cleared me for the monoclonal antibody therapy that he had previously received, which I am convinced saved my life," Carson wrote.

I'm not making this up - Sen Ron Johnson started a Senate hearing yesterday on hydroxycholorquine. Even though Trump has obviously moved on.

[kluurs]

Ben Carlson also said that oleander extract, the my pillow guy's "cure" for Covid, is what turned the tide.

[Loki]

If I were marketing Oleander I would target all the people who say they won’t take the vaccine.

[LuFins Dad]

Wait, Ben Carson THE NEUROSURGEON took medical advice from the pillow guy?

I want off.

[Copper]

A wise man listens to advice.

[Loki]

I read somewhere that the FDA is not keen at all at present on the effectiveness of the monoclonal antibodies and in fact suggests they can do harm.

[Copper]

I have heard that about aspirin.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Ben Carson was sick AF with COVID-19:

@George-K said in Ben Carson was sick AF with COVID-19:

"President Trump was following my condition and cleared me for the monoclonal antibody therapy that he had previously received, which I am convinced saved my life," Carson wrote.

I'm not making this up - Sen Ron Johnson started a Senate hearing yesterday on hydroxycholorquine. Even though Trump has obviously moved on.

I would go back and take a look at it. Many of the studies used the wrong cocktail, the wrong dose and gave it at the wrong time in the disease process.

Before burying cheap and effective for horribly expensive (have you priced Regeneron or Remdesivir?), I think we need to take a very hard look at cheap.