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2020-03-15 Science & Technology

Doctors Push For Treatment Of Coronavirus With Blood From Recovered Patients

h/t Hot Air
In a paper published Friday in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Casadevall and a colleague, Dr. Liise-anne Pirofski, argued that collecting blood serum or plasma from previously infected people might be the best hope for treating severe cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, at least until a better treatment can be developed.
We call it "passive vaccination" (see wiki article) and nowadays there is methods from producing the necessary antibodies from animals* - first producing the immunizing protein in bacterial factories - "Protein production" (wiki)) and not bleeding people - it's 21st century not medieval Transilvania!
*cf.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-15 06:08|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Grom's link extracted. It may need some tweeking.

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_

General_Biology/Book%3A_Biology_(Kimball)

/Unit_15%3A_The_Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Animals/15.04%3A_

Immune_System/15.4P%3A_Passive_Immunity

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-15 06:34|| 2020-03-15 06:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Dankie Besoeker, the link Passive Immunity

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-15 06:38|| 2020-03-15 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes.

How about infecting young volunteer prisoners. Thence harvest the antibodies.

Volunteers would be monitored and receive appropriate healthcare during the process, and receive PrisonPerks® for their trouble.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-15 20:39|| 2020-03-15 20:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Coronavirus vaccine race: volunteers to be infected in the UK

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-15 21:13|| 2020-03-15 21:13|| Front Page Top

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