Thank you for posting. Here are my questions:

1) Have you or are you currently taking Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin as a prophylactic?
2) Does your hospital protocol allow you to treat patients with monoclonal antibodies, colchicine, anticoagulants, corticosteroids, Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin?
3) N-95 masks have exhale valves correct? So if you have COVID and wear one, you are still spreading SARS-CoV-2 correct? It really protects you from catching COVID. However, other masks do not prevent you from being infected by a virus the size of SARS-CoV-2, so how does wearing the same mask stop you from spreading it to others when aerosolized? What mask study can you cite showing that wearing masks prevent the spread of the virus?
4) Do you agree that wearing masks can cause harm from a buildup of CO2 and actually cause respiratory problems?
5) On a percentage basis, how many COVID patients do you or your Hospital prescribe Remdesivir?
6) What test are you using to detect that someone actually has COVID-19 since the FDA recalled the RT-PCR test, but allowed it to continue until Dec. 31, 2021? How do you know that it is a variant?
7) As a doctor who is seeing only the sickest people impacted by this disease on a daily basis, are you able to understand why people like me refuse to live our lives in fear over a disease that has death percentages like the link below on my signature?

The damage being done by woke, proactive doctors and healthcare officials lobbying elected officials to demand unconstitutional control over our lives is ridiculous. The arrogance of many doctor's combined with the blatant manipulation of statistics/propaganda has created a huge distrust with many people. Have you seen your peers have blatant disrespect to patients have not chosen to get the clot shot?

Again, thank you for taking time to read and respond. My questions come from built up frustration over this entire “pandemic” and seeking to learn your thoughts as a front line doc.

[ The vaccines do not “prevent” you from contracting Covid. They do however on average greatly reduce the severity of your illness and subsequent risk of hospitalization and death.

In your opinion, why has there been such a huge emphasis on people getting the vaccine from the healthcare industry? Why has there not an emphasis on people being generally healthy (aka being active, eating healthy foods, getting outside ) and do you think this makes a difference in people’s outcome with the virus?

Of the unvaccinated in the hospital how many have had the chyna flu before?

The long wait time in the ER is nothing knew and is NOT caused by Covid. I have been a Firefighter/Paramedic in the Birmingham area since 1993. I have had the not so great pleasure of being assigned to rescue/transport unit most of those years. I waited on the wall for three and a half hours at the old UAB with a cancer pt. puking her guts out and that was around 15 yrs. ago. It only got worse and spread to all the other Birmingham area hospitals. It got to where every hospital was on every kind of diversion and would discourage you from bringing them another pt., even though legally that can't refuse a pt. It is not the hospitals fault completely. For some reason I cannot explain, people started using the ER instead of their regular doctor I guess so they could be treated sooner. It got so bad that about 5 years ago I told the city I work for they could keep that little 5% premium rescue truck pay and I rolled to an engine company. It got to where you spent more time on the phone calling every single hospital to see who was not on divert. The free standing ER thing helped a little but even now those will get full quickly. These wait times have been going on for years.

His handle says Deer Farmer, that’s what I asked.

“There are long waits in our ER, our ICUs are full. ICU units that are designed for one patient have two patients in them, that’s because of COVID. If you come to us and need an ICU room today, and you’re not COVID, you’re going to wait because some people chose to not get vaccinated and they are sitting in our ICU taking up a bed. Our staff are exhausted mentally and physically. We are probably short 500 nurses right now to meet the demands,” said Samz. “There are long ER waits, there are slower EMS response times, ICU patients on regular nursing floors. The individual choices people are making not to get vaccinated are impacting everyone in our community.”




Do you look at un-vaccinated people in the ICU as "taking up a bed", like the Hunstville CEO does?

Hospitals have had over a year to pivot and adjust their processes, procedures and overall prepare and stay prepared for this ongoing pandemic. Why have most seemed to handle it in such a poor manner? Or in your opinion, have you seen hospitals handle it in a poor manner? Or Are they just "that" overwhelmed?

Do you believe Doctors and Nurses should be mandated into vaccinating to continue work in a hospital?

Why would the cdc be against giving ivermectin and hydroxy chloroquine if they are both dosed appropriately for the individual? I understand they are both safe drugs, and can’t see the harm in trying them in very ill patients even if it’s not “approved” for this particular illness. The vaccine was “experiment” so why not an experimental treatment?
It’s creating a lot of distrust and division.

WillyB - just had an 8 yo -4wks s/p mild Covid infection present to the ER with gastroenteritis symptoms and persistent fever. ER doc luckily looked further and the girl is currently in the ICU with MIS-C. She looks to be improving with IVIG and dexamethasone. Have you guys seen MIS-C or MIS-A ? Also, I too just started Rx'ing Ivermectin on a limited basis and thus far I'm not convinced it changes anything as two of my limited pts have ended up in the hospital on Bi-pap despite early intervention.
BE careful recommending the vaccine on here or you will be labeled as an elitist, pinkie, commie. We are all just part of the problem and all a part of some grand conspiracy scheme to accomplish something - just not clear what the end game supposedly is for this scheme.

Help me to understand why you would recommend I get the vaccine?

I'm 30 years old, healthy, no pre-existing conditions, strong immune system (the last time I can recall being sick enough to miss work or school was 20 years ago)

1) no I don’t agree with his chosen language however I believe 100% of our MICU beds are currently occupied by Covid patients on the ventilator currently, approximately 90-92% of whom are unvaccinated.
2) I’m not sure exactly what else hospitals could have done. The infrastructure is fixed and staffing shortages are real and are currently a limiting factor. Critical nurse numbers are not infinite, they too are a fixed number. Many nurses in hospitals nationwide have left inpatient medicine for outpatient offices or have left their hospital for a travel nursing assignment elsewhere that pays substantially more.
3) I don’t believe that mandating somebody to do something is the best approach

And did you see good results from the Ivermectin? Or was it a flop?

This isn't the thread to act the way you are towards the end of your post. Everyone is doing good with asking legitimate questions and being respectful to this man for giving us his time. Of the posts I've read on this thread there only seem to be 2 people that have been negative toward the purpose of this thread, for some reason those 2 people are also doctors.

Thanks for your time Willyb.

WilyB

Do you ever see this going away completely or think it will be a yearly thing like the flu?

Also, do you think the vax may be contributing to the variance kind of like what has happened with MRSA ? By this I mean somehow virus survives in a vaxed person and that led to a variance where vax is not as effective?

WillyB - just had an 8 yo -4wks s/p mild Covid infection present to the ER with gastroenteritis symptoms and persistent fever. ER doc luckily looked further and the girl is currently in the ICU with MIS-C. She looks to be improving with IVIG and dexamethasone. Have you guys seen MIS-C or MIS-A ? Also, I too just started Rx'ing Ivermectin on a limited basis and thus far I'm not convinced it changes anything as two of my limited pts have ended up in the hospital on Bi-pap despite early intervention.
BE careful recommending the vaccine on here or you will be labeled as an elitist, pinkie, commie. We are all just part of the problem and all a part of some grand conspiracy scheme to accomplish something - just not clear what the end game supposedly is for this scheme.