Day 12 in the countdown to an end to the COVID-19 panic.

[Darren]

"Among the myriad clinical trials for vaccines to prevent COVID-19 and drugs to treat infections, doctors are looking to survivors’ plasma for a possible therapy. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement on Tuesday (March 24) stating that investigators can request to use plasma from COVID-19 survivors to deliver antibodies to seriously ill patients, under an emergency investigational new drug (IND) protocol.

Convalescent plasma treatment, as it is known, has roots stretching back over 100 years. It is based on the premise that because a survivor developed antibodies throughout the course of their own infection, blood donations to those who became recently ill would give the recipients’ immune systems a leg up, reducing the severity of the disease and increasing the likelihood of survival. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the rate of mortality decreased by as much as 50 percent among the patients who received the convalescent treatment, according to a meta-analysis of medical records available at that time and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2006.

To bring the treatment up to modern standards, plasma donations from people who have recovered from COVID-19 infection would be processed and purified, creating a serum to transfuse into critically ill patients.

“Deployment of this option requires no research or development,” Arturo Casadevall, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says in a statement. “It could be deployed within a couple of weeks since it relies on standard blood-banking practices.”


https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opin ... ents-67324

[BoSoxGal]

[Lord Jim]

[Darren]

"In France, the government caved to pressure from renowned Dr. Didier Raoult, who led the new additional study on 80 patients, results show a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to be effective in treating COVID-19. Dr Didier Raoult, a professor of infectious diseases who works at La Timone hospital in Marseille, then declared in a video on YouTube that chloroquine was a cure for Covid-19 and should be used immediately.

Dr. Raoult reportedly walked out of the scientific advisory committee advising the government after allegations that the government was being influenced by the big pharmaceutical companies which wanted to block hydroxychloroquine because it was cheap, being out of patent."

"Italian government also announced on Friday that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine could be used to treat all coronavirus patients."

https://techstartups.com/2020/03/28/bre ... PqJPrz4xhY

[Scooter]

[Darren]

[Lord Jim]

[Scooter]

He doesn't realize that he just revealed that he's doing nothing but regurgitating a Trumpanzee talking point in order to defend Trump's premature ejaculation.

[Crackpot]

How long until the claim of “liberals are getting themselves sick on purpose”

[Scooter]

That would be the village idiot's line.

[Joe Guy]

Quote from French Health Minister, Olivier Véran...

"Dr. Raoult’s study involves 24 people. What kind of health minister would I be if, on the basis of a single study conducted on 24 people, I told French people to take a medicine that could lead to cardiac complications in some people?"

[Scooter]

He is obviously motivated by hatred for Donald Trump.

[RayThom]