1. In January, I reported it was a pandemic. I read every medial paper I could find in early February. I spotted clotting issue in a report, I think in Lancet, that elevated d-dimer had large decrease in survival odds. I might have misread it but it said if you had it you
2. were unlikely to survive. If you didn't have elevated d-dimer, you lived. I thought anything that dealt with clotting should be examined. Trump takes aspirin. It can prevent clots but I was concerned that the clotting might be an artifact of internal bleeding.
3. A "chicken or egg" problem. Does the clotting start on its own or is it triggered by small bleeds? Trump is being treated like some first-year med school student's cadaver getting pumped full of every treatment we have. That does not sound like someone doing well.
4. What is the actual lab data on his d-dimer for the past week? No oral report. Show us the chart. @DoD_IG
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1. Something I'm watching with Trump: The literature I saw didn't recommend #Dexamethasone early in the disease course. There were concerns that it would suppress the immune system's initial response, but his physicians had no problem with it. I don't presume
2. professionals are incompetent. So how could their use be justified? If Trump was infected by the debate that would put him on Dexamethasone about four days in. It's obvious Commander Conley doesn't want to tell the American people that POTUS was already infected on Tuesday.
3. He doesn't want to go back in time. But once Trump threatened the peaceful transfer of power, no polite courtesy can be afforded him. He wants to threaten us as a domestic enemy then he doesn't get any slack.
1. I think it's interesting to note that Trump's political opponents are more vocally concerned for his safety than his supporters. Because we are political creatures in the middle of an election cycle it's easy to frame any concern from the left as just another attack on Trump.
2. But that still does not fully explain why Fox News would not even mention the risks to Trump. I predict that no Fox News hosts nor guests will say a word about whether this is a good idea for Trump. The right cares more about the election and its impact on their society than
3. their beloved leader. They love him but seem okay with the thought that he may harm himself. Or worse.
Remember the scene in Apocalypse Now when Col Kurtz is lounging in his jungle HQ with his "dispatcher" Captain Willard? Most people didn't notice the books on the table.
1. Here is an early Dexamethasone study reported in @TheLancet. All patients were on mechanical respiration. But the key is they all had ARDS. Has anyone confirmed he has ARDS? thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
2. So, as time went on, more studies were done. Here is a July study in the New England Journal of Medicine. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
3. Here's the key:
CONCLUSIONS
In patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the use of dexamethasone resulted in lower 28-day mortality among those who were receiving either invasive mechanical ventilation or oxygen alone at randomization
A wide range of psychiatric reactions including affective disorders (e.g., irritable, euphoric, depressed, labile mood, and suicidal ideation) psychotic reactions (e.g., mania, delusions, hallucinations,
2. aggravation of schizophrenia), behavioral disturbances, irritability, anxiety, sleep disturbances and cognitive dysfunction (e.g., confusion, amnesia) have been reported. These reactions have been reported in adults and children. In adults, the occurrence of severe reactions
3. has been estimated to be about 5% to 6%.[Ref]
This is not a drill. The way Trump's treatment is being handled is a threat to national security. Doctors under the @DeptofDefense control are engaging in enemy level propaganda to influence a US election.
1. I never watch @rupertmurdoch's @FoxNews. To make me do it, you'd have to hook me up like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange."
2. So I need to rely on the kindness of strangers to tell me if they are running factual broadcasts or just more Fox propaganda? The reason I ask goes back to the expressions of 1st Amendment Rights in DC that set the Fascists off to attack peaceful demonstrators so Barr could
3. allow an anti-Christian heretic to desecrate a church. What happened IMO from the perspective of analyzing propaganda is that people tuned #FoxNews off and watched DC drama unfold on other news sources. I reported at the time that it appeared to me that, without the necessary
1. I was interviewed recently regarding my scoop that Trump had #Covid19. The way I confirmed it created a #Twitterstorm that was reported as news. I found it amusing. But during the interviews they asked about what I was? How to describe what I do? Professionally I'm a lawyer
2. and, as part of my work, I conduct investigations. But what I am doing on @Twitter is what I did the first time I did anything on Twitter during the #Iranian student uprising in 2009: I'm an anti-propagandist who fights for democracy by fighting enemy lies.
3. I'm the son of an @AP war correspondent. I took an oath to defend the Constitution that soviet style propaganda is being employed to destroy. I ask questions and demand evidence to back answers. I report people who won't give evidence that would prove their statements