{"id":5353,"date":"2020-04-25T04:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2020-04-25T04:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T09:04:20","slug":"mich-medical-society-president-prescribed-lawmaker-hydroxychloroquine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/mich-medical-society-president-prescribed-lawmaker-hydroxychloroquine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mich. Medical Society president prescribed lawmaker hydroxychloroquine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Mich. Medical Society president prescribed lawmaker hydroxychloroquine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In a Wednesday interview, Arsiwala said first-term Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat he didn’t know previously, came to a Michigan Urgent Care location in Wyandotte. She had symptoms of COVID-19 and an underlying condition, and he decided her treatment should include an antibiotic and hydroxychloroquine, he said.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s a novel virus. It\u2019s acting in a very strange way. And it\u2019s causing a lot of damage honestly,” Arsiwala said of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Out of 58 patients who have tested positive for the virus, Arsiwala said he’s chosen to give the medication to 12, including Whitsett, who had a severe headache and breathing problems.<\/p>\n

“It was a choice between going to the hospital and never coming out and getting my hands on that medication,”\u00a0Whitsett said in an interview this week<\/a>, adding that\u00a0“It literally saved my life.”<\/p>\n

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Source: Mich. Medical Society president prescribed lawmaker hydroxychloroquine In a Wednesday interview, Arsiwala said first-term Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat he didn’t know previously, came to a Michigan Urgent Care location in Wyandotte. She had symptoms of COVID-19 and an underlying condition, and he decided her treatment should include an antibiotic and hydroxychloroquine, he … Continue reading Mich. Medical Society president prescribed lawmaker hydroxychloroquine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}