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“None of my lupus patients have developed covid, which is quite remarkable,” Dr. Daniel Wallace, a rheumatologist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, said in a teleconference for the Lupus Research Alliance.
Wallace said that of around 1,000 patients with coronavirus that have showed up at his hospital network, “one has had lupus.”
“It may be that the drugs that these patients are taking provides them with type of protection. I find this rather interesting and I can’t quite explain it,” Wallace said.
Dr. Peggy Crow, the chief of rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, echoed Wallace’s observations.
“The anecdotal experience,” she said on the teleconference, “is that many more presumably healthy people are developing infections with COVID-19 than we’ve seen in our lupus patients, or rheumatoid arthritis patients.”
“I think lupus patients are being very careful,” she said, noting that people with the disease have compromised immune systems.
“I think overall they’re doing pretty well under the circumstances.”
It’s almost contradictory that an immunosuppressant drug would help against COVID infection.
On the other hand, the immune system is crazy complex. It may be that simply changing the immune system ‘tricks’ the virus somehow. At any rate, there seems to be a strong correlation between the use of chloroquine in lupus patients and the absence of COVID infections in lupus patients.
I can see why Cuomo wants more of it.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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