Dec 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/GeorgeFareed2/status/1466772789826777088
âElderly people have frail immune systems, and Dr. George Fareed in Southern California recognized early on that you canât just give hydroxychloroquine and zinc and vitamin D and antibiotics day four or five, which works for middle-aged people perfectly wellâŠ.â
ââŠ, doesnât 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.â
âYou screen them for a fever and pulse oximetersâŠtest blood oxygen levelsâdoing that twice a day.
When their oxygens were dropping, but they werenât otherwise symptomatic, and you found a fever that you wouldnât have recognized, you start treating them, and thatâs what he didâ