Dec 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/GeorgeFareed2/status/1466772789826777088
“Elderly people have frail immune systems, and Dr. George Fareed in Southern California recognized early on that you can’t just give hydroxychloroquine and zinc and vitamin D and antibiotics day four or five, which works for middle-aged people perfectly well….”
“…, doesn’t work for frail elderly because the virus has had no immune system growing to try to suppress it because of their age and disabilities.
In them, you have to give it on day one. How do you give it on day one? It means you have to screen them daily.”
“You screen them for a fever and pulse oximeters…test blood oxygen levels—doing that twice a day.
When their oxygens were dropping, but they weren’t otherwise symptomatic, and you found a fever that you wouldn’t have recognized, you start treating them, and that’s what he did”