From Bolsonaro to Trump, all the presidents care. Not just Remdesivir: which ones were chosen and why

Skeptics, deniers, minimalists, many political leaders they have belittled, ignored, if not ridiculed, the sanitary measures against Covid-19. At least until the day they contracted the virus themselves. The Belarusian President, Aleksandr Lukashenko, had defined the virus containment rules as “psychotic”, and that to defeat it it would have been enough to take a “sauna 3 times a week, and vodkaUntil he declared that he was positive for the coronavirus. Someone survived the disease unscathed, like Jair bolsonarowhile others ended up in intensive care. It is the case of Boris johnsonwhile the president of the United States Donald trump – still hospitalized at Walter Reed Military Hospital – twice in the last few days he needed oxygen therapy.

There are those who have tried the “corn cure”, a treatment without any scientific evidence that the president of Honduras has chosen to follow, Juan Orlando Hernandez. This therapy is based on an experimental and unproven combination of microdacin, azithromycin, ivermectin, and zinc. Then there are the heads of state who are not clear if they died from Covid or not. The leader of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, a member of the Hutu ethnic group, died suddenly on June 8, officially of a heart attack, but in circumstances that are still unclear. The truth is that, according to the guardian, the president’s wife was positive and flew without him to Nairobi, in Kenya, for the treatment against the disease and not to arouse suspicions, since Burundi has expelled WHO representatives from the country precisely to obscure the existence of the coronavirus.

BORIS JOHNSON – The British Prime Minister (56) announced on March 27 with a tweet that he tested positive for the coronavirus. The course of Covid-19 was unexpected, so much so that Johnson was forced into three days of intensive care. His doctors never disclosed information about the medications he was treated with. Officially they just said they gave him oxygen. Daily fact contacted directly Nzinga cotton, the communication manager of the St. Thomas Nhs, who stated that he is not authorized to give us information – neither confirmations nor denials – about the “treatments” administered to the tenant Downing street: “We cannot help with your request“. the Daily mail hypothesized the use of several drugs, from Lopinavir / Ritonavir, to hydroxychloroquine to Remdesivir, but without having any official confirmation. On April 13, word came out of Johnson’s negative test result prior to his discharge from St. Thomas Hospital. London.

JAIR BOLSONARO – The Brazilian president (65 years old) confirmed that he tested positive for Sars-Cov2 on July 7, after the swab performed at the military hospital in Brasilia. Had high fever and typical symptoms, such as severe shortness of breath and exhaustion. The treatment chosen by the president was the one sponsored until then by Trump, that is, the antiviral and immunomodulatory drug known as hydroxychloroquine (Although there have never been definitive confirmations on the real effectiveness of this antimalarial). As of July 7, Bolsonaro remained in isolation at his residence in Alvorada Palace, until July 25, when on Twitter the president himself announced his third negative swab, complete with a photo of him holding a packet of hydroxychloroquine in hand.

SILVIO BERLUSCONI – The 86-year-old founder of Forza Italia tested positive on September 2: he underwent the test after his stay in Sardinia. On September 3, he was hospitalized in San Raffaele, a Milan, for bilateral pneumonia in the early state. Here began the treatment based on the antiviral Remdesivir, the only anti-Covid19 drug approved by the European Medicines Agency. As confirmed by the virologist from the Milanese institute, Massimo clementi, Berlusconi was subjected to a cycle of 5 days, according to protocol. Apart from this therapy, nothing else: no oxygen, no experimental treatments (as for Trump). On September 15, Berlusconi left the hospital and on September 29 he obtained the first negative swab.

DONALD TRUMP – As reported by the Cnn, Donald Trump takes Remdesivir as an antiviral, as well as a mixture of two monoclonal antibodies (experimental) ea different supplements: zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin tablets and one aspirin a day. The White House Doctor Sean Conley He then released an update on the president’s health, specifying that he had given him a second dose of Remdesivir “without complications” (the cycle lasts 5 days), but also added that “the president not out of the woods yet“In the last few hours he has also been given a potent steroid, dexamethasone, and it was reported that he could be discharged within the day. Second Peter horby, professor of medicine a Oxford and principal director of the Covid clinical trial of the English university, is a drug “lifesaver”. This could indicate that Trump has been badly affected by the disease.

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