Brate Describes Battling COVID
July 30th, 2020
Fighting the COVID
Joe honestly doesn’t know anyone personally that has been infected by “The Sickness.” That was, until this week.
Bucs tight end Cam Brate came down with the COVID, and today in a Zoom conference call Brate admitted his fiance had the same virus before him. So that makes two people Joe knows of who came down with “The Sickness.”
Brate left no doubts in his mind how he contracted the virus. He squarely blamed his fiance.
“She is actually the one who infected me!” Brate said.
Battling “The Sickness” for Brate was about two months ago, he said. And it sounds like he really lucked out. Brate, however, didn’t go into details of what his fiance dealt with.
Because his fiance became infected, Brate said he decided to get tested to play it safe. His test came back negative. But Brate decided to quarantine himself. Shortly thereafter, he said he lost the sense of taste “for a couple of days” and then tested positive. Those were Brate’s only symptoms.
Brate considers himself lucky, though. Not just that his symptoms were mild compared to many victims.
“I am extremely grateful I was not one of the ones who got the more severe symptoms,” Brate said. “The scary thing is if [Brate’s fiance] hadn’t tested positive, I kind of would had gone on with my life and potentially infected other people.”
Brate couldn’t recall exactly when he became sick other than saying it was “a couple of months ago.”
July 30th, 2020 at 2:15 pm
My daughter had it a month ago. She had no symptoms other than a loss of taste for one day. None of the rest of us in our home got it.
July 30th, 2020 at 2:16 pm
Recent studies have shown that asymptomatic people very rarely spread it
July 30th, 2020 at 2:31 pm
looks like joe is trying to play the role of “divider” between brate and said fiance…
not nice joe…
play nice
July 30th, 2020 at 2:35 pm
1. my father in law and sister in law both tested positive. father in law showed no symptoms, sister in law was sick with cold like symptoms for about 2 or so weeks.
2. currently, my 13 yr old is quarantined at his moms house due to her roommate tested positive. again, he is showing no symptoms.
3. i had a buddy test positive and was in the hospital with pneumonia. Nurse came in and gave him hydroxychloroquine and he was feeling so much better after 12 hours.
4. ive had numerous friends that have had it and ive been told the symptoms were from cold like symptoms and not feeling well to one person telling me he has had hangovers that felt worse than the sickness.
5. my wife had to get tested on july 15 and she finally got her negative results back today. it took 15 days to get her results back!
i guess it just depends on who gets it and how their body will react
July 30th, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Nnnooo! She’s way cool. So’s Cam. Didn’t include her name on purpose. Can tell you she’s a Clemson girl.
July 30th, 2020 at 2:47 pm
951:
Hope he pulls through as easy as Brate!
Guess this shows what a sheltered life Joe lives. Only know of two people who had the virus and have yet to see a gator despite living in the Tampa Bay area for 22 years. Of course, this is just one Joe. The other Joe knows many people who have had The Sickness and has encountered many, many gators.
July 30th, 2020 at 3:03 pm
joe
thanks dude! its a waiting game at this point. no need to get him tested (in my eyes) since there isnt any type of treatment for it.
ive also had 2 friends schedule appointments to get tested, never went, and got positive results sent back to them. but when i typed that here on this site, i was called a liar (not by you)
thanks again, joe!
July 30th, 2020 at 3:04 pm
I personally had it. It was the definition of a 2 day cold. Felt a little lazy for a couple days after, but it definitely hits people differently. Especially those with pre existing conditions.
July 30th, 2020 at 3:22 pm
Background with COVID (never had it).
Had to have a minor out-patient procedure about two months ago. Before they would do the procedure, had to be tested for the corona.
Showed up as instructed. It was like a drive-up window without the window. Someone stood outside, confirmed your appointment, swabbed your nose (aggravating as hell but totally painless — took maybe 10 seconds max).
Show up for the procedure three days later and results were not in (et). They did the procedure anyway. Hahaha.
(Test came back negative.)
Every two weeks have to get a shot at USF health. Recently, arrived as usual for shot. About a half-dozen staffers meet you outside and use their temperature guns to confirm if you have a fever. If you do, they won’t let you in. First woman checks my temperature and claims it is high and won’t let me in. Asked what will happen with the scheduled shot and she leaves and brings back two other women. They each have a temperature gun. Both check temp and it was fine. The first woman found out she had a faulty gun.
Appreciate them being thorough.
July 30th, 2020 at 3:24 pm
Bucsfan951, I highly doubt a nurse came in, and gave your friend a dose of Trump’s fools gold miracle cure hydro B.S.. If that drug worked, why are people dying at record numbers? Joe, you should edit blatant political lying the same as cursing, because me thinks 951 is full of sh…
July 30th, 2020 at 4:20 pm
Fwiw, my wife has it right now. I’ve been exiled to the south side of the house.
July 30th, 2020 at 4:48 pm
I’m pretty sure my wife and (at the time) 10 month old son could’ve had it. My wife lost both her smell and taste and felt like crap. My son had a 103.8 fever and was extremely lethargic with cold like symptoms. Obviously this was before the covid craze.
I ended up getting sick right after but wasn’t hit nearly as hard as the other 2. Unfortunately, it’s a virus and it isn’t going anywhere without a 100% cure. Not treatment, A CURE!
July 30th, 2020 at 4:48 pm
^that was in February of this year.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Great for Brate and his fiancé. But the insidious thing about the virus is
you can be healthy and still die. My wife’s friend got it. She works out and had no other med problems. From the time she was diagnosed until her death it was 2 weeks. It attacked her and she immediately went down. Doctors are still unraveling the viruses mysteries. Why some do great and others succumb. Stay Safe people.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:10 pm
Brate and his girl had a good cough and a laugh about the virus. Well maybe a cough and a sneeze? Could have been a fever or a cough or maybe a shortness of breath? OR could have been vomiting, nausea and headache. Reality it was little for one and nothing (2 days without taste) for the other. Not here but other media is selling this as I can’t believe he’s a Covid survivor.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:19 pm
951, that hydro drug would not be given to your friend, if you had one, for treatment of pneumonia, or covid. Why would you make up a story like that? Your whole post 1 through 5 is total B.S.. I can’t believe Joe bought it.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:35 pm
^see I told you.
Yes, all of these posts are lies. I’m doing it for attention from joe buc fan readers… You figured me out quick, hodad. Smh
July 30th, 2020 at 5:43 pm
I’ve never had it. I’m an essential employee with a healthcare facility. I have awesome benefits, tons of available sick time, and a union that will make sure I am compensated well should I come down with the sickness. Two coworkers have and their symptoms were no worse than the seasonal flu.
But I’m still healthy. Still going to work every single day sniffing as many people as I can, licking every door knob I come across, lingering in areas that should be highly contagious………and every morning when I arrive at work and have my first of 4 daily temperature checks, I get the same sad news: “97.4, you’re good to go.” Life. Isn’t. Fair.
In all seriousness though, it can be a deadly virus, but so can the seasonal flu. I still think we never should have moved beyond “stay home if you’re sick or vulnerable”. Lockdowns and masks are an assault on our collective intelligence and our freedom. It should be up to each of us to decide what the best course of action is based on our individual needs.
July 30th, 2020 at 5:44 pm
Hodad
Plz give me your email address so I can send you the screen shot of the bottle with his name on it. Also, you can see our text conversation about it. It was around April 2.
I’ll be patiently waiting for your email address….
July 30th, 2020 at 6:12 pm
easy willie g, hodad will probably call you a liar!
thanks for your services during this situation!
July 30th, 2020 at 6:49 pm
There are NO STUDIES that say asymptomatic people don’t spread it. That’s just stupidity.
July 30th, 2020 at 7:26 pm
@Hodad Says:
July 30th, 2020 at 3:24 pm
Bucsfan951, I highly doubt a nurse came in, and gave your friend a dose of Trump’s fools gold miracle cure hydro B.S.
and @Hodad Says:
July 30th, 2020 at 5:19 pm
that hydro drug would not be given to your friend, if you had one, for treatment of pneumonia, or covid.
There are so many intra-hospital situations where the staff has tried Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin either together as treatment or separately. There is a wide variation on how well these drugs may or may not work since it is so early in science of testing these against COVID-19.
Here is one study out of Michigan and their largest health care provider and over 2400 patients that SAYS IT WORKS.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext
Again not every study says it works. Yet, you are the one who tried to make Bucsfan951’s statement political instead of anecdotal as he was just relaying information to us.
July 30th, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Yeah, I guess the 154,000 deaths in the US leader (we’re number 1) are fake news!
July 30th, 2020 at 8:22 pm
Hodad, show us your degree in medicine or stop talking out of your butt. The governor of Ohio just rescinded his Health Departments ban on hydroxychloroquine. Is after Trumps fool’s gold too?
July 30th, 2020 at 8:23 pm
^^^Is he^^^
July 30th, 2020 at 8:52 pm
Dang. Hope all you guys stay safe and feel better.
July 30th, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Alvin Scissors Harper Says:
July 30th, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Yeah, I guess the 154,000 deaths in the US leader (we’re number 1) are fake news!
Perhaps if we hadn’t eliminated a viable treatment from our protocols we might have better percentages? Like much of the rest of the world who ARE using Hydroxychlorequine?
July 30th, 2020 at 10:08 pm
I had it, my wife had it. We know five other people that had it. We got over it completely in three days. None of the other five (35-52 years of age) people took more than five days to recover. If you are youngish and in good health, you will be fine regardless of what the media is trying to get us to believe.
July 30th, 2020 at 10:16 pm
Joe:
I know I’ve said this before but how in the holy he!! do you live here 22 years and never see a Gator?! Do you even go outside?
July 30th, 2020 at 10:18 pm
SOME ACTUAL FACTS
Actually what is being “reported”. We can spend the rest of the night speculating on whether Covid deaths are under or over reported but there are now more than 150,000 DEAD AMERICANS.
So is it the position of some here that all the science that countermands Hydro is bogus and for some reason? we have simply decided to ignore an efficacious cure and let people die?
How does that work? A critical mass of scientists are lying to us? The media is creating all kinds of “Hollywood” video of nurses and docs acting as if they are harried and just came from a war zone. ALL of this is a CONSPIRACY?
Just curious. Again the motivation for letting people die when a CURE is at hand?
July 30th, 2020 at 10:29 pm
Ha!
Things Joe has seen in Florida:
Sharks
Barracuda
Sea turtles
Dolphins (plenty of those)
Bear.
All kinds of weird birds.
Joe tends to avoid places where gators are (freshwater bodies of water) and honestly, am not looking for one of those damn things either.
July 30th, 2020 at 11:17 pm
Just curious. Again the motivation for letting people die when a CURE is at hand?
I’m not invited to those board meetings…
I do know that as soon as ‘bad orange man’ mentioned that some doctors had had success with it and suggested, because he wants to limit death as much as you or I, that we use it more… It was immediately demonized and many local governing agencies banned it.
You have asked why we are doing so bad as compared to the rest of the world?
Well for one thing, they are using it, and it is effective.
Nigeria NY
pop 206.5 mil pop 19 mil
41,180 cases 418,000 cases
860 deaths 32,333 deaths
As you can see, the numbers are a little skewed (also 2 days old)
What are the differences?
We know that NY by far has the better medical system and does not have an issue with malaria
Nigeria does have a problem with malaria and uses HCQ to treat it
Yale Epidemiologist Harvey Risch penned a report in the “Health Exec News” supporting the efficacy of HCQ
Ohio Gov Dewine(sp?) has reversed the ban on HCQ this morning
Hundreds of anecdotal stories which somehow get removed from media shortly after posting
Whoever did make the decision to demonize this SAFE, 50 year old, FDA approved drug is guilty, in my opinion of condemning many thousands of Americans to death. All for petty political reasons, in my view.
Do you really think things would have been the same if it wasn’t an election year?
I’ll finish with a quote I heard recently from Henry David Thoreau,
“Think for yourself or others will think for you without thinking of you”
July 30th, 2020 at 11:20 pm
Dammit!
The info for Nigeria and NY were neatly separated and easy to read but Joe’s system scrunched them up!
July 30th, 2020 at 11:26 pm
Plenty more to back it up by the way but I don’t type so fast and get a little tired after long posts like that
Ford Clinic is another recent one if you wanna look it up
July 30th, 2020 at 11:33 pm
I guess, in a way, it is ‘bad orange mans’ fault
If he had let Fauci suggest the use of HCQ it might not have been demonized.
We might be looking at 80,000 dead(still plenty bad)
And you and I would not be arguing about this on a ‘football’ site!
July 31st, 2020 at 12:08 am
Another anecdote for you
HCQ is an ‘over the counter’ drug in France but…
They removed it from the shelves to protect from a shortage and changed it’s status to ‘prescription only’.
They did this in January
Question?
How did they know of it’s use and efficacy in this situation so soon?
July 31st, 2020 at 10:42 am
Great points GP. I believe NY’s “official” site may have deaths around 25K, but your point is still valid and well laid out. Sadly some folks just have this “Orange Man Bad!” sentiment that prevents them from even entertaining the possibility that perhaps we have a cheap and non-patented combination of drugs that has shown promise in helping some patients. It should be a discussion and informed decision between people and their doctors, not politicians or pharmacies.
July 31st, 2020 at 10:44 am
Thank you Toes
July 31st, 2020 at 2:36 pm
gp Says:
July 30th, 2020 at 11:17 pm
Just curious. Again the motivation for letting people die when a CURE is at hand?
I’m not invited to those board meetings…
I do know that as soon as ‘bad orange man’ mentioned that some doctors had had success with it and suggested, because he wants to limit death as much as you or I, that we use it more… It was immediately demonized and many local governing agencies banned it.
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Actually, it was the two idiots in Arizona who took the hydroxy that was meant for cleaning their fish tank that got the Nevada governor all up in arms and banned it. Can’t fix stupid, but the Dims can sure use it as a political gambit!
July 31st, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Just heard Fauci’s testimony in congress..bottom line… “Dr. Fauci says all the ‘valid’ scientific data shows hydroxychloroquine isn’t effective in treating coronavirus.”
Believe who you want. I’ll side with the experts. But as a disclaimer, I tend to do that in most things ranging from auto repair to surgery.
Funny that some argue the death total is wrong because people died of complications of conditions in addition to Covid…but they never think that someone that took this drug might have gotten better with or without it, or because of something else in their treatment, and the drug really did nothing to contribute to overcoming this disease.
Again..believe what you want. I’ll stick with the overwhelming scientific and medical recommendations.
July 31st, 2020 at 7:16 pm
DETROIT – Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System.
In a large-scale retrospective analysis of 2,541 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2, 2020 across the system’s six hospitals, the study found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4% not treated with hydroxychloroquine. None of the patients had documented serious heart abnormalities; however, patients were monitored for a heart condition routinely pointed to as a reason to avoid the drug as a treatment for COVID-19.
The study was published today in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, the peer-reviewed, open-access online publication of the International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID.org).
Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine at Henry Ford met specific protocol criteria as outlined by the hospital system’s Division of Infectious Diseases. The vast majority received the drug soon after admission; 82% within 24 hours and 91% within 48 hours of admission. All patients in the study were 18 or over with a median age of 64 years; 51% were men and 56% African American.
“The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,” said Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for Henry Ford Health System, who co-authored the study with Henry Ford epidemiologist Samia Arshad. “We attribute our findings that differ from other studies to early treatment, and part of a combination of interventions that were done in supportive care of patients, including careful cardiac monitoring. Our dosing also differed from other studies not showing a benefit of the drug. And other studies are either not peer reviewed, have limited numbers of patients, different patient populations or other differences from our patients.”
Zervos said the potential for a surge in the fall or sooner, and infections continuing worldwide, show an urgency to identifying inexpensive and effective therapies and preventions.
“We’re glad to add to the scientific knowledge base on the role and how best to use therapies as we work around the world to provide insight,” he said. “Considered in the context of current studies on the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, our results suggest that the drug may have an important role to play in reducing COVID-19 mortality.”
The study also found those treated with azithromycin alone or a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also fared slightly better than those not treated with the drugs, according to the Henry Ford data. The analysis found 22.4% of those treated only with azithromycin died, and 20.1% treated with a combination of azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 26.4% of patients dying who were not treated with either medication.
“Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives,” said neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis,
July 31st, 2020 at 8:12 pm
Today before Congress..
Dr. Anthony Fauci told federal lawmakers Friday that a study by Henry Ford Health System that showed hydroxychloroquine was effective in lowering the death rate among COVID-19 patients was “flawed.”
Health officials should instead rely on the “gold standard” of a randomized, placebo controlled study to determine whether the drug is effective, Fauci told the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
“The Henry Ford Hospital study that was published was a non-controlled retrospective cohort study that was confounded by a number of issues, including the fact that many people who were receiving hydroxychloroquine were also using corticosteroids, which we know from another study gives a clear benefit in reducing deaths with advanced disease,” said Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert advising the White House on the coronavirus response.
“So that study is a flawed study,” Fauci said after Missouri Republican U.S. Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer asked him about the trial.
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System did not immediately return an email seeking comment, but the health system warned in its July 2 press release about the study that follow-up trials were needed.
July 31st, 2020 at 8:23 pm
Flawed Study…hopefully Faucci’s reasons will show shortly out of Moderation.
July 31st, 2020 at 9:35 pm
How many ACTUAL doctors, scientists and or experts do I have to produce before you will finally realize that Fauci, who is more bureaucrat than doctor, is LYING to you.
I’ve named close to a dozen, you’ve named one
I guess I just can’t help you
Enjoy your perfect little world man
August 1st, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Joe have you never driven down alligator alley? (I-75 going east/west from Naples to Miami / Ft. Lauderdale?)
The sides of the roads are literally littered with Gators. I did that drive probably 40-50 times if not more, back when I still lived in Florida. And out of all those trips, maybe only once did I not see gators. I’ve also seen them in bodies of water all from South Florida to Orlando and other parts of central Florida