I finally had a chance to sit down with an infectious disease doctor that our friend dates. They came and stayed the weekend with us, and after a few beer, I picked his brain. Last month he had over 600 Covid patient encounters, and what he told me was rather dasting. I will try and summarize what he told me to keep is as short as possible, still going to be a long post.
Before I start, he is saying the vax isn’t a bad as what people are saying it is, just throwing that out there. They have definitely seen significantly less vaxxed patients than unvaxxed. I felt like he was truthful, and he is a Republican and trump supporter. So, take it for what it is.
First off, regarding the use of ivermectin. Basically what he told me was that the CDC is releasing as far as studies go to the “institutes” shows that it doesn’t help anything at all, and it’s a non viral treatment, therefore the CDC recommends against it. So, because of that, due to grants that hospitals operate on, if they go against CDC guidance, they can and will lose their funding. Doctors are essentially told to stand down against prescribing it when it comes to doctors that work in large federally funded hospitals. So, makes you wonder, is the misinformation coming directly from the CDC?
Second, remdisivir (spelling) is completely useless, which was touted by Fauci himself. He says he never prescribes it now since he has never had a positive patient outcome.
Third, regeneron (spelling?) works, however, he has ran into multiple cases that insurance will not pay for it to be administered in the hospital. This seems odd to me.
Fourth, he said a drug that he has found works amazingly is a rheumatoid arthritis medicine, and I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. The bad part, he said it’s in a severe nationwide shortage. Like, you can’t get it at all right now. He said however, it is also a non viral treatment like ivermectin and he uses the RA treatment as much as he can get his hands on because the CDC hasn’t officially came out against it (because it’s in a shortage I suppose). For example, he only has one dose of it left at his hospital, and he has three people that he would give it to right now but he has to chose which one gets it and he absolutely hates having to do that. So, he didn’t speak against ivermectin, but he said until the CDC turns around their views, hospital docs cannot start to use it.
Can we get a dig on the RA medicine?