My friend's 12 yr-old niece is in a hospital in Brooklyn being treated for covid-19. Last night they intubated her. I just found out about it this evening and sent him all of the information that I found from this site regarding the treatment packs in India and contact information for the frontlinedoctors web-site. He is in contact with them and God willing, will be able to demand the appropriate treatment for her using the right to try law.
I cannot believe that we are over a year into this and the friggin' doctors STILL are not using the proper treatments.
What else can I do to help my friend help his family?
Any advice is welcome but most of all my sincere thanks to everybody who has posted such helpful information.
Update 4/25/21: Just found out from my friend that the doctor is saying the girl will need to be on a vent until at least Friday. To make matters even worse, she's at Elmhurst hospital where they were literally picking off patients. I am so heartsick for him and his family and fear that this will end badly.
Sending prayers. Somebody had to give permission for a child to be put on a ventilator and that's the only person to serve as advocate now.
Most doctors are not using intubation or ventilators now to treat Covid. I can't understand doing that to a child when that's considered a last resort. Praying for your niece's recovery.
I'm pretty sure that her mother gave her permission. There is so much fear porn out there and not many that are aware of the treatments that are available. To compound the situation, this is all occurring in NY (Brooklyn area I think) which might as well be the gas chamber.
What makes matters even worse is my friend's English is difficult to understand and as far as I know, he speaks the best English out of his family so who knows what has been properly communicated.