>>LAUREN VERNO: WELCOME BACK EVERYBODY LAST NIGHT A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS.
>>MELANIE LAWSON: SAID NEARLY
70 DRUGS MIGHT BE AFFECTED IN
TREATING CORONAVIRUS SOME OF THE MEDICATIONS ARE ALREADY BEING USED TO TREAT OTHER
DISEASES, ONE CALLED COURIC WIN
WAS HEAVILY TALKED ABOUT LAST
WEEK DURING A CORONAVIRUS TASK
FORCE BRIEFING. IT’S USED TO
TREAT MALARIA AND SOME OTHER
CONDITIONS. THE PRESIDENT
CALLED IT A
GAME CHANGER. BUT THE NATION’S
TOP INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT
GAVE A SWIFT A WARNING SAYING
THE EVIDENCE THE PRESIDENT WAS
TALKING ABOUT WAS
JUST ANECDOTAL. THIS MORNING
WE’RE HEARING EXCLUSIVELY FROM
A LOCAL DOCTOR WHO SAYS HE
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED AKO BIT 19
PATIENT USING A
SIMILAR DRUG. DOCTOR DAN EPA
LIDO A PULMONARY AND CRITICAL
CARE SPECIALIST AT THAT THIS
BEACHES CENTER JOINS US
THIS MORNING. DOCTOR TOLEDO YOU
POSTED THIS OUTCOME TO FACEBOOK
THIS WEEKEND AND SO FAR IT HAS
BEEN SHARED MORE THAN
6,000 TIMES. THIS IS REALLY
GIVING PEOPLE SOME HOPE AND
JUST TALKING WITH YOU MINUTE
AGO, HE SAID THERE’S A LOT OUT
THERE THAT SHOULD GIVE
PEOPLE HOPE.
>> GOOD MORNING. YES AND THANK
YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE
WANTED TO EMPHASIZED TO BOTH TO
A TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS WITH
COVID BOTH FOR THE FOR HEALTH
CARE PROVIDERS TO UNDERSTAND
THAT THERE ARE TREATMENT
REGIMENS THAT ARE UTILIZED AND
THEN DISCUSSED A VARIETY OF
LEVELS BOTH IN THE SYSTEM
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL.
SO WHEN WE HAD THIS PATIENT
PERCENT AND THE DECISION
ULTIMATELY WITH THE DISCUSSION
WITH OUR INFECTIOUS DISEASE
COLLEAGUES THAT WE SHOULD GO
AHEAD AND TREAT WE CAME UP WITH
THE BEST PROTOCOL BASED OFF
WHAT WE CAN GATHER AT THE TIME
AND WE DECIDED TO USE THE
REGIMENT OF HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE
WITH THE COMBINATION OF ZINC
FOR THE TREATMENT OF
THIS PATIENT.
>>LAUREN VERNO: TALK ABOUT WHAT
THE PATIENT’S SYMPTOMS WERE
BECAUSE HE SAID HE CAME IN
REALLY HAD NO OTHER RISK
FACTORS EXCEPT FOR HIS AGE, BUT
HIS SYMPTOMS PROGRESSED
VERY QUICKLY.
>> EXACTLY OFF THE FOR PATIENT
PRIVACY AMERICAN. IT’S
SPECIFICALLY TALK ABOUT THE
PATIENT AND
TOUGH BUT HE IS THE 6TH HE WAS
68 YEAR-OLD GENTLEMAN
WHO PRESENTED IT FAIRLY HEALTHY
BACKGROUND, NO CO-MORBIDITIES
THAT YOU WE
WOULD HEAR KNOW HE WAS A
DIABETIC DID HAVE HEART FAILURE
DIDN’T HAVE C O P D
HE WORKED AT HOME ANY REALLY OF
A DENIED ANY RISK FACTORS FOR
COVID SO HE WAS VERY LOW ON
OUR SCALE FOR A POTENTIAL FOR
COVID PATIENT. BUT FORTUNATELY
FOR OUR TEAM AND FOR THE
PATIENT. SO WE WANT TO HAVE
DECIDED TO ISOLATE AND TO
SCREEN
FOR HIM. A GIVEN THE FACT
PRESENTATION HIS PRESENT IT IS
PRESENTING SYMPTOMS WAS
SHORTNESS OF BREATH
AND COUGH FOR A WEEK PRIOR TO
HIS ARRIVAL TO THE HOSPITAL HE
TRIED CALLING THE THIS PRIMARY
CARE BUT AS PRIMARY CARE WAS
HOME BASE IT ON THAT THEY’RE
OVERWHELMED AND SAY HE SHOULD
GO TO
THE HOSPITAL AT THE
PRESENTATION. HE WAS ORIGINALLY
FOUND TO HAVE LOW
OXYGEN LEVELS. TIME REQUIRING
ABOUT 3 TO 4 LEADERS OF OXYGEN
SO THE DECISION WAS TO BRING
INTO THE ICY YOU FOR
CLOSE OBSERVATION MONITOR HIM
WITH ALL THE POSITIVE WITH THE
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
THAT WE HAVE FOR THE
HEALTH CARE AND TO INITIALLY
WHAT WE DID WAS TO TREAT AS A
POTENTIAL JUST BACTERIAL
BRONCHITIS PLUS MINUS
PNEUMONIA.
>>LAUREN VERNO: RIGHT AND YOU
SAID YOU GOT HIM TESTED FOR
COVID THOSE TEST RESULTS
WERE IN WHEN YOU REALLY START
TO SEE THE ESCALATION WE HAVE A
PICTURE THAT
YOU HAVE GIVEN US THAT REALLY
SHOWS WHAT HIS LUNGS LOOK LIKE
FROM DAY ONE AND THEN DAY FOR
SO EXPLAIN WHAT WE’RE LOOKING
AT HERE.
>> CORRECTS OVER THE PERIOD OF
THE NEXT FEW DAYS WHILE HE WAS
IN THE HOSPITAL HE HAD A
DECLINE OF DRESSED FOR STATUS
AND HOW WE DEFINE THE DECLINE
AND HIS STATUS WHICH WAS AN
INCREASE IN OXYGEN DEMAND.
HIS OXYGEN LEVELS WHEN HE FIRST
CAME IN HE WAS NEEDING ABOUT 2
TO 3 TO 4 LEADERS OF OXYGEN.
BUT OVER TIME HIS OXYGEN
REQUIREMENTS KEPT GOING UP TO
FROM 40%
50%. AND WE ENDED UP HAVING TO
PUT UP TO A
100% OXYGEN. JUST SO HE CAN
MAINTAIN SOME DEGREE
OF STABILITY AT THAT POINT HIS
PROGRESSION OF CHEST X-RAYS
FROM WE SAW HIS INITIAL
CHEST X-RAY WAS FAIRLY
UNREMARKABLE OF MILES OF A
SLIGHT AMOUNT AT THE RIGHT
PACE. BUT HIS PROGRESSION A
CHEST X-RAY 3 DAYS DOWN THE
ROAD SHOWS US IT A SIGNIFICANT
DIFFERENCE WITH PATCHY ON BOTH SIDES OF HIS LUNGS AND ALL THE RED THAT YOU’RE SEEING THERE ON
THE SCREEN ALL OF THAT
IS INFLAMMATION.
>>LAUREN VERNO: SO AT THAT
POINT YOU KNEW YOU HAD TO ACT
QUICKLY WHY DID YOU PICK THIS
PARTICULAR TREATMENT.
>>VIC MICOLUCCI: WELL GIVEN THE
FACT THAT HE WAS ON A GOOD AND
A BIONIC REGIMEN HE WAS NOT
RESPONDING SO WE DECIDED I
DECIDED TO TAKE A TO GO AHEAD
GET A CAT SCAN OF THE PATIENT
AND THAT CAT SCAN WHICH WAS
SHOWN THE PICTURE ON THE BOTTOM
RIGHT. IT WHAT IS WHAT
BASICALLY IS CLASSICALLY BEEN
REPORTED AS COVID RADIOGRAPHIC
CAT SCAN FINDINGS BASED ON
THAT CAT SCAN IS WHAT I
ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO GO AHEAD
AND TREAT. INTERESTING POINT HE DID HE WAS A LOW RISK FACTOR. HE DIDN’T HAVE THE BLOOD TESTS
THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH A
COVERT I PATIENT
AND NO OTHER SIGNS POINTED TO
COVID EXCEPT FOR THAT
CAT SCAN. SO FOR ME AND FOR MY
FROM WHAT I TOOK FROM THIS A
PRESENTATION. YOU HAVE TO LOOK
AT ALL ASPECTS OF
PATIENT CARE AND DECIDE WITH
ALL THE INFORMATION HE HAD AT
THAT SITE TO GO AHEAD AND
ULTIMATELY TREAT OR NOT TREAT
BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE SO THAT
CAT SCAN WILL TO BE DECIDED TO
PUT THIS PATIENT ON
A REGIMEN.
>>LENA PRINGLE: AND IT WHAT YOU
EXPLAIN TO ME THIS WEEKEND IS
THAT WHAT HAPPENS WHAT COLD IT
IS THAT THE INFLAMMATION OF THE
DISEASE REPLICATE SO QUICKLY
THAT WHAT THIS DRUG DID WAS
SLOW THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT SO
THE BODY COULD CREATE ITS OWN
AND A BUYOUT EAST TO
FIGHT IT AND YOU’RE SAYING YOU
KNOW THIS ISN’T NECESSARILY THE
ONLY THING BUT THERE ARE OTHER
THINGS THAT ARE WORKING BUT
AGAIN GIVING PATIENTS HOPE THAT
THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE
THAT COULD POTENTIALLY SAVE
THEIR LIVES. THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR SHARING THIS STORY TODAY.
WE HOPE TO PATIENTS DOING
BETTER. HE SAID HE SHOULD BE
OUT OF THE HOSPITAL VERY
SOON RIGHT.
>> YES NOW SAYS WE STARTED
THERAPY DOUBT ABOUT FOR DAYS
NOW OUT THERE BECAUSE OXYGEN
REQUIREMENTS HAVE NOW COME DOWN
TO WHERE ISIL IS ACTUALLY
OFF OXYGEN AND WALKING AROUND
IN THE ROOM SO HE STILL A WHOLE
LOT BETTER NOW THAT AMAZING