Rudy Giuliani flashes a thumbs-up as he leaves hospital after COVID-19 diagnosis amid criticism that Donald Trump and his pals are getting preferential medical treatment
Rudy Giuliani has left hospital following his COVID-19 diagnosis, amid criticism from the medical community that Donald Trump and his pals are getting preferential medical treatment in the nation’s fight against the virus.
Trump’s personal attorney flashed a thumbs-up to reporters and waved as he was driven out of Georgetown University Hospital around 5 p.m. Wednesday, four days after he tested positive.
Giuliani, who is 76 putting him in a high-risk category, was admitted to the medical center Sunday where he was treated with the same ‘miracle’ cocktail of drugs as Trump.
Now, doctors are voicing outrage that Trump’s inner circle are able to get the drugs with ease – which are not available to most of the population.
Dr. Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado where they are using a lottery system for Regeneron treatments, said it was deeply unfair to allow privileged individuals to skip the queue.
‘That’s one of the reasons why we decided that we would allocate this only through the state and only through this random allocation process so that no one could get a leg up by virtue of their special connections,’ he told New York Times.
Senior pharmacy director for University of Utah Health, Erin Fox, who helped her state draft criteria for who is eligible for antibody treatments from Eli Lilly and Regeneron, said that patients often met the state’s criteria to receive the drug but it was so scarce that it was left to individual hospitals to decide who should receive it.
‘We’ve been trying to get the word out so that as patients might get a positive test they could get information that they might qualify for treatment, but that only works for people with a lot of resources,’ Dr. Fox said.
Three top officials in the FDA also raised concerns about the seeming ease with which people at the White House could access the drugs while the rest of the country struggled to get their hands on it.
Concerns were raised after numerous members of the Trump administration including the president, Chris Christie and Ben Carson were diagnosed with Covid and treated with Regeneron or Eli Lilly’s antibody drugs.
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