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| Doctors Push For Treatment Of Coronavirus With Blood From Recovered Patients |
| 2020-03-15 |
| 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 |
| #4 Coronavirus vaccine race: volunteers to be infected in the UK |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2020-03-15 21:13 |
| #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 |
| #2 Dankie Besoeker, the link Passive Immunity |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-15 06:38 |
| #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 |