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| People in the UK 'will be first' to get Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine, Number 10 says amid claims Donald Trump will 'fast-track' the jab to make progress in US's crisis before the presidential election |
| 2020-08-24 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #12 Growing up, mad scientists injecting people with serums was a staple plot of Saturday afternoon sci-fi. If you are going to do it, I guess an island is the best place, in case it goes all 28 Days Later. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-08-24 20:09 |
| #11 At least G will sleep happy tonight? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-08-24 19:00 |
| #10 Lots of screaming at the link in #8 - Today's propaganda on plasma sets the stage for a future announcement on an unproven vaccine. They've shown they WILL GAMBLE WITH YOUR LIFE. So it's not even as good as HCQ? Anybody wonder if Trump was set up? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-08-24 18:50 |
| #9 @ rjschwarz - Gotchya. I've given blood often in Red Cross drives but never gave plasma. I used to know guys in college who would give (sell) their plasma twice a week. I'd be willing to do donate...if.... |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-08-24 16:54 |
| #8 Plasma from recovered It seems the FDA chief made a mistake in his presentation - the efficiency of convalescent plasma is 3.5% not 35%.. Part of it can be due to varying levels of specific antibody in convalescents' plasma. We'll have to wait for monoclonal anti covid antibodies which can be produced in any desired quantity. Most of it due to the fact that anti covid antibodies can't touch virus infected cells - you need HCQ+zinc (or T killer cells) for it. That is, passive immunization has co be combined with HCQ+zinc. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-24 16:25 |
| #7 Clem, hospitals will have a list of people they've treated for Covid and they'll ask them to come back and donate and I'm confident a large number will donate. Plasma lasts a lot longer than regular blood. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-08-24 14:49 |
| #6 Google Eli Lilli monoclonal anti-covid |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-08-24 13:36 |
| #5 We'll need a lot of donors of plasma from what I understand. And I understand use of plasma was occurring months ago (with success), so it is nothing new (relative to COVID). I went to get blood work done recently, and I was basically stunned that not only would they not test me for COVID (fine by me), they were not in the least bit interested in testing me for any anti-bodies. O.k., whatev-uh. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-08-24 13:21 |
| #4 The transfusion idea will mostly eliminate the need for vaccines. Having said that the people in the UK should be first to have access to a vaccine developed and tested there. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-08-24 12:57 |
| #3 I hope he does (if). I mean, what can the moron Dems say, "Hey, Mr. Trump, why are you buying a vaccine from Russia (that works)? You mean you want people to be safe from COVID-19? That is just un-sat." |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-08-24 11:30 |
| #2 What if Russian vaccine work (what if), and Trump buys it from Putty? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-08-24 10:50 |
| #1 I'm going nowhere near this (not even a vaccine) booster. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-08-24 10:42 |