{"id":105273,"date":"2020-04-13T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/covid-19-patients-given-unproven-drug-in-texas-nursing-home-in-disconcerting-move"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T16:42:43","slug":"covid-19-patients-given-unproven-drug-in-texas-nursing-home-in-disconcerting-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/covid-19-patients-given-unproven-drug-in-texas-nursing-home-in-disconcerting-move","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Patients Given Unproven Drug In Texas Nursing Home In \u2018Disconcerting\u2019 Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-patients-given-unproven-drug-in-texas-nursing-home-in-disconcerting-move.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay now I agree that Hyroxychloroquine works. Ventilators have a mortality rate of 80% yet people keep trashing this drug, while people like that French doctor say it works.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at nursing home: \u201cIt\u2019s actually going well. People are getting better,\u201d Armstrong told NPR, adding that after just a handful of days, some of the 39 patients on the medication are showing signs of improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaid Professionals:<\/p>\n<p>But scientists argue that relying on observational, uncontrolled evidence can be misleading and that the only way to truly prove a drug is working is through carefully controlled clinical trials. And, contrary to Armstrong\u2019s assertion that hydroxychloroquine \u201chas virtually no side effects,\u201d it is known to have serious negative health impacts. That is why so many in the medical community worry about prescribing it without such proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay now I agree that Hyroxychloroquine works. Ventilators have a mortality rate of 80% yet people keep trashing this drug, while people like that French doctor say it works. Doctors at nursing home: \u201cIt\u2019s actually going well. People are getting better,\u201d Armstrong told NPR, adding that after just a handful of days, some of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}