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1/n: I was reading about Monoclona Antibody treatment -- trying to find injection sites for people. I came across people commenting on the success. I am not using this woman's name, but here is her experience:
2/n: "Nearly all the residents of my elderly mother's entire small nursing home in California tested positive with Covid-19 over the course of a week, a week before Christmas, from an infected staff member. Although my mother, and most of the residents, were not on hospice,
most 3/n:
of them did have DNR's, so the nursing home was only allowed to administer "comfort care" until a number of families questioned why not some kind of pro-active treatment, while symptoms were mild. (We had to ASK for at least liquid zinc and Vit. D.!)
of them did have DNR's, so the nursing home was only allowed to administer "comfort care" until a number of families questioned why not some kind of pro-active treatment, while symptoms were mild. (We had to ASK for at least liquid zinc and Vit. D.!)
4/n: According to the nursing home, the county health department wouldn't allow outpatient treatment for vulnerable covid patients, yet the local hospitals wouldn't admit patients with DNRs. Catch 22.
5/n: To its credit and our gratitude, the nursing home applied for an emergency exemption to the county health department's rules, partly on the justification that their own staff was at
6/n: risk of all getting sick (3 had come down with it already), and that treating the residents would protect the staff as well as if residents' illness was briefer and less severe. 22 patients, including my mother, who is 86 with secondary conditions of type 2 insulin
7/n: dependent diabetes and history of heart attack, received the monoclonal antibodies treatment. That was almost 3 weeks ago. NONE of them have died, and 20 have already tested negative for active infection."
