Eric Feigl-Ding's tweet - "Let this sink in: Ben Carson, Trump’s HUD Secretary, was “extremely sick" w/ #COVID19, and became "desperately ill”. ➡️ He survived after using monoclonal antibody drugs—*before* it was FDA approved. So much privilege—250k Americans weren’t so lucky. "

@DrEricDing | 783,689 followers

Let this sink in:

Ben Carson, Trump’s HUD Secretary, was “extremely sick" w/ #COVID19, and became "desperately ill”.

➡️ He survived after using monoclonal antibody drugs—*before* it was FDA approved.

So much privilege—250k Americans weren’t so lucky. npr.org/sections/coron…

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In reply to @DrEricDing

Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

2) Thousands of health care workers weren’t so lucky as Ben Carson and Trump WH cadre.

Garrett M. Graff

@vermontgmg

A remarkable story. It does not like an overstatement that the President and at least one Cabinet member had their lives saved from Covid-19 by treatments not available to the general public. If they were any other patients....

In reply to @DrEricDing

William E. Umfleet, CMD

@WmEUmfleet

I bet they wish they had access to the same treatment. pic.twitter.com/dQ1MdidX7y

In reply to @DrEricDing

Dawn-Convict Trump & His Entire Criminal Cabal

@viewsfordays

'So much privilege' is pretty much the hallmark of the Trump regime

L O L G O P

@LOLGOP

Very disappointed Secretary Carson didn't let Hydroxychloroquine save his life just to make Mr. Trump look bad.

In reply to @DrEricDing

Jen

@jngcabot

I don’t begrudge Dr Carson, but most People don’t realize that individuals like him get favored treatment and that’s why they recover even when extremely sick like he was.

In reply to @DrEricDing

@tinyangel77

My friend’s mother-in-law who retired from nursing the week before she was admitted with covid was on deaths door. And with tears in her eyes my friend asked why her mother in-law couldn’t get the same drug Trump did. This makes me sick.

Andrew Zimmern

@andrewzimmern

.drericding you are spot on.

Im still stunned that with 250,000 dead and millions sick, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better, there is NO Fed covid plan and congress adjourned without the senate addressing any economic relief...

These people work for us! Insanity

In reply to @DrEricDing

John Gavin

@JohnPGavin

Wrote this as a warning in July. We're here now.

In reply to @DrEricDing

Ducknation

@duckdynasty

Isn’t the monoclonal drug also made in part by cells from aborted fetuses? GOP leaders preach anti abortion but they line up for a drug like this the moment their lives are in danger...

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anitaB

@anitabu03403015

He boasted how President Trump saved his life. 250,000 families would have lived to say that same thing

In reply to @realDonaldTrump

Sally Deal 🇺🇸 Pro-Science/Media Sources Matter

@SallyDeal4

twitter.com/DrEricDing/sta…

In reply to @DrEricDing

Leigh 🇺🇸 No unity without accountability! 🇺🇦

@caborose

Exactly, the little people are suffering while the elite get preferential treatment. So disgusting!

In reply to @DrEricDing

Johanna

@JoSwedishMamma

I read the same thing only to open my newspaper this morning and come across this!! WTH? pic.twitter.com/7uSXtDA07z

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SunBea2

@bentsally11

Why won’t he clear it for the public use. If it cure his 🐃. Why aren’t they giving it to sick people. Just giving to the politicians in the republicans party is evil. Letting the people die.

In reply to @DrEricDing

is it safe ... is it safe

@bruceL160

Carson is Eminently, singularly, qualified to be the head of HUD ... after all ... he owns a house

In reply to @DrEricDing

worldist Americana.

@AntiMagat2

This is the reason why some people become politicians. They can be lousy at their job but will receive all cutting edge healthcare benefits not to mention can vote to increase their 💰immaterial of the economy. They are elected public servants not “public Gods” This has to 🛑.

In reply to @DrEricDing

Gabbaruce

@Gabbaruce

In keeping with the privilege scenario, why would we expect the vaccine to be shipped to states that Trump doesn’t like. He has threatened cutting federal funding to NY and CA. Perhaps he is telling state level reps to seat his electors or lose access to vaccine

In reply to @DrEricDing

Joe Marino

@JoeMarino2017

There's "trump's people" and then there's the rest of us

In reply to @DrEricDing

Joyous Panther

@JoyousPanther

It’s amazing how much he has tarnished his image and legacy the last five years.

Barry Friedman barryfriedman1@mastodon.social

@barryfriedman1

In case you are wondering (as I have) why COVID seems so much less deadly in high circles. Maybe they just are getting drugs others aren't

😈

@turtlekiosk

im sorta confused by this position because trump's stance is basically do away with the FDA and just let these drugs right on the market

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Ida Ivey

@IdaIvey1

I noticed he’s been off the radar for a while. Now he wants to “stop playing politics with medicine.”

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Theresa Wagner

@Theresa31723334

I honestly think none of them should beable to use therapies before any of us can. It ensures that better decisions are being made. Currently they are not which has a detrimental impact on Americans. What happened to all men are created equal?

Rick G. Rosner

@dumbassgenius

If you get #COVID while working for Trump, you get special $100,000 life-saving drugs regular Americans couldn't get.
(FDA just approved monoclonal antibodies last week. Let's see if they become widely available.)

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Charlene Loughlin

@charmar28

Exactly! Wake up Americans! #LOSER if I get sick will I have this same special treatment???

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empress of emeralds

@emeraldsempress

#BenCarson says #POTUS saved his life by providing him the coveted, exclusive treatment that is only available to the privileged few. Good for them. Not good for us. They don’t care. They need fetal stem cells to survive. We are on our own.

In reply to @DrEricDing

Meatballs4thewin

@Changeyourtoot1

I am just slightly happy that my hospital is starting to enroll a patient in these treatments with I clinical trial. Wish it wasn’t such an unfair system for the powerful vs the “nots”

Mary Li Ma, PhD, #antiracist

@maryma9966

GOP, the party of privilege

In reply to @DrEricDing

Leslie Reed

@lesliejoan58

Republicans like Trump and Ben Carson want quality healthcare but only for themselves #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

Jesse Elin Browne

@effiedog

That while telling people & press initially, that he was using My Pillow Guy's oleander-based crappola. Oleander is a poisonous plant. Phony pills taken from it are also poisonous & cures nothing. Ben Carson is nuts. There's a reason he's not doing neuro-surgery anymore.

Dave Kellogg

@Kellblog

The fact that we now seem to expect public servants to take care of themselves first shows how far we’ve fallen. Ditto for the wealthy and powerful; we seem to have accepted corruption

In reply to @DrEricDing

Joanne Lo

@JLothe2nd

What really angers me is these are the people surviving and saying, "No masks required!! It's just a simple case of the flu!"

In reply to @DrEricDing

I Stan Angela Bassett and Humanty🦋tiredofit10

@tiredofit10

Chris Christie also.

Dawn Summers

@FakeDawnSummers

And doesn't that involve fetal cells? Where the 'life begins at conception' protests at?

In reply to @DrEricDing

VaPol

@VaTravel11

Is it a privilege to take unapproved medicines?

In reply to @DrEricDing

🇺🇲Vote Democratic🇺🇲

@recDNA

I wonder if any hospitals in MA even HAVE those monoclonal antibody drugs?

In reply to @DrEricDing

RJ 🇺🇸

@Rjlovemylife

My brother wasn’t so lucky.....

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Rowan Miller

@RowanMiller123

Glad he'll be ok but if that would have been an ordinary American they would not have access to the drug and the outcome would be totally different

miguel gomez stan account.

@NailsNCrowns

Honestly? Fuck that guy.

TrueTrumpSeries

@TrueTrumpSeries

Get it.

@realdonaldtrump @vp and the VIP Republicans get it.

Some people are more important than others.

@foxnation @govkemp

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Bobbie

@BobbieFG2

Every trump administration member is a self serving grifter.

In reply to @DrEricDing

Chut! j’ai pété…

@symch741

Preserving privilege is basically the GOP platform, you know.

connie

@mewmewmew13

.@HHSGov also I'm guessing @realDonaldTrump will allow his cronies @KLoeffler and @Perduesenate and others the same privilege ..Fuck the rest of American taxpayers
#COVID19

In reply to @DrEricDing

Isaac Arnold James

@jamesninethree

If only China didn't leak the virus then the million+ people worldwide wouldn't have died.

P.Salvati Norris & Kalicat

@NorrispPattie

Trump only helps his own...the rest of us can die...and do..

In reply to @DrEricDing

Lynn Kindsvater🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@KindsvaterLynn

pic.twitter.com/OLSNUMGIV7

In reply to @DrEricDing

Ahura Mazda 🦁☀️👑

@Ahura3

Maybe cause when thousands were dying in the nursing homes in New York and California thanks to their Democrat governors THIS DRUG WAS NOT AVAILABLE???

Eve Moon 🌻🇺🇦🌻

@Matisse617

This is the EPITOME of swamp privilege

In reply to @DrEricDing

Bring on the #TrumpTrials❗

@BostonDems

"Desperately ill" is when a ventilator gets shoved down your throat and not when you get treated like the obviously unhealthy TrumPutin and Chris Christie who miraculously survived, despite their obesity, probable high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes!

SMartN

@SherriM12714590

and meanwhile, in MS people will be damn lucky to even get a hospital bed.

In reply to @DrEricDing

JCH of AGW

@jch_of

In the press they said a trial on hospitalized patients started in the UK in mid-September. 4,000 patients, 1/2 placebo. If it was making a difference, wouldn't there be a news leak by now?

Leftneck Jesus

@LeftneckJesus

"He survived after using monoclonal antibody drugs—*before* it was FDA approved." Or as Ben Carson described it "God is still in charge."

Andy Beebe

@Andy_Beebe

Let this sink in for a moment, too. #COVID19

AliceMaryland 🇺🇸

@Alice_Maryland

#COVID #COVID19 #BenCarson

Julie Engler

@JENGLER1

So now we are at the point that only the well-connected, with strings to pull,will survive. The rest of us will be expendable. 😩😤

Horse Sense

@mabian

Outrageous. Not to mention he got it because he violated a few simple rules: mask😷, distance, wash hands. 👇🏽

In reply to @DrEricDing

ABC 🇺🇦

@YannT1

That tells it all

In reply to @DrEricDing

L D Accounting and Tax Services

@LDAccountingan1

1: Is there any indication that it did anything; he could have just was easily been taking something that would have ended up killing him, not exactly something most people would be clamoring to get.

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L D Accounting and Tax Services

@LDAccountingan1

2: It is highly probable that no treatment was going to help those 250K; to think otherwise it to pretend that monoclonal antibody drugs are a cure for COVID. We would have a better chance of trying to cure the common cold or seasonal flu.

Henri

@hsmithson_

For those who think they'll survive like Ben Carson did, read this: you are not one of the privileged inner circle people. You will not get the special drugs nor the 1 on 1 care he got. You just won't. So stop taking chances #WearAMask #COVID19

In reply to @DrEricDing

Earl Redman

@redman_earl

250k minus 94%. And So you don’t like keeping Ben alive?

Mahmudur Rahman, PhD

@mahmudme01

That's a good news about this drug! As this is approved now, hope that it will save many more lives!

K. K. M. G.

@KMKWAKG

Exactly! I guess Herman Cain was left to die since he wasn't in the cabinet. I'm sure he thought he was an important friend like others who also got stabbed in the back by this administration to the tune of over 250K dead and millions unemployed and food insecure.

Alyce M Layden

@alyce_layden

Characteristics of an authoritarian approach to government

Linda T

@lintan19

Republicans support the privileged class; don’t care about the rest of us.

In reply to @DrEricDing

@Mcwaffle23

#grimreapercarson pic.twitter.com/M2vGdgoMQR

Edible Grasshopper

@TheCanadianMike

All about the party my
Reichsführer!

In reply to @DrEricDing

Hal Smith

@SmithHal

Have hypothesis; c19 virus is more dangerous when contracted 1st in lungs, if injected in mussel or ingested & survives in other body tissue will produce antibodies so later in lungs we have already a better defense. Masks & vent help get c19 in lung-not good. Can one disprove?

In reply to @DrEricDing

Gioanola Alessandra

@GioanolaA

Because Fauci killed lots of them c19study.com

bowman

@BowmanDore

So much privilege.

In reply to @DrEricDing

gkprosper

@gkprosper1

Eric the world is sick! And the drug has just been made available!! If you were in charge instead of just a turd stirrer what would you have offered these people?? And whose fault do you believe it is??

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Rolando Cervantes

@rxc43

We only care about the time when Carson fades away.

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