Posted on 04/08/2020 4:57:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If he didn’t have the test results to prove it, David Herrmann never would have known he had the coronavirus.
Last month, Herrmann, 54, visited his doctor for a regular check-up after returning to San Antonio from a ski trip to Crested Butte, Colo., with his family. Because he’d traveled to an area where the virus was spreading, his doctor ordered a test, and within days, it came back positive. But his only symptoms were a brief loss of taste and smell, and a passing fever that never broke 100 degrees.
Herrmann knows others with COVID-19 aren’t as fortunate. So when he saw that the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center was collecting blood plasma from people who had successfully fought off the coronavirus to give to those who were still critically ill, it felt like the right thing to do.
His plasma donation on Tuesday afternoon — the city’s first — has kickstarted local efforts to treat the sickest COVID-19 patients with a therapy that has long been used for other diseases without treatment or cure.
Doctors and researchers hope that the transfusions, which were recently given the green light by federal regulators and are also part of a national clinical trial, will equip those patients with enough antibodies to aid their recoveries.
The experimental therapy has already been used to treat coronavirus patients elsewhere in Texas, including in Houston, Galveston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Elizabeth Waltman, chief operating officer for San Antonio’s blood bank, said the nonprofit organization jumped into high gear last week, after the Food and Drug Administration lifted the regulatory hurdles preventing blood centers from collecting and distributing plasma on a widespread basis to hospitals with coronavirus patients.
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So, I have a medical immunology question.
I understand that antibodies can fight the virus in a sick patient.
My question is: Do the antibodies also stimulate the further production of antibodies in the recipient, or is it a one-time transient boost for therapy?
In fact, simply by NOT giving them Hyrdochloroquine, the worst patients should recover pretty quickly.
One of the reasons they are so sick and not recovering is that just the IDEA that Hydrochloroquine might at the very least not harm them is enough to accelerate and abet the crowny little critter.
If you don't have Corona, don't even THINK of Hydrochlorquine. It's the same as coveting thy neighbor.
In fact the origin of the word 'Covet' is from the Latin 'Covid', thorny crown, or more precisely 'to Covid Hydrochloroquine' is to doom oneself to the disease.
To consumate covidding chloroquine is to 'catch a cup 'o covid.'
That is the esoteric meaning of the Pali term: Covfefe.
Oddly, I didn’t see the words “unproven” or “anecdotal” anywhere in this article.
I suspect the FDA wouldn’t have lifted the regulatory hurdles if PIAPS was Pres.
What I find absolutely incredible and breathtaking is Trump can cut through all the DC crap!!!
Unbelievable.
Held my nose and voted for him. Now I realized I was fooled by the “president needs to act presidential” rhetoric.
This time...I AM SO BROKEN GLASS!!!!
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It’s a one time thing.
It takes time for a body to make anti-bodies, sometimes the virus is moving faster.
This sorta bides us time.
“””””’’So, I have a medical immunology question.
I understand that antibodies can fight the virus in a sick patient.
My question is: Do the antibodies also stimulate the further production of antibodies in the recipient, or is it a one-time transient boost for therapy?””””””””””””
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My son has terminal brain cancer. When he was told he no longer had a chance he said he was not willing to give up.
So they started an experiment drug. Thanks to Right To Try.
Some doctors from another hospital heard about his case and asked him to try an experimental treatment they are working on. Now he goes once a month to an out of state hospital for a t-cell infusion. They have a donor there.
A few weeks ago they said his brain tumor is slightly smaller and today his blood numbers looked real good.
Prayers, sounds hopeful
There are some cyanide based medications that could cure TDS but the side effects are deemed too severe.
So true.
This disproves the ChiCom propaganda stories that your body will not produce antibodies and this will reinfect you.
If that were in any way true this therapy would not be working.
MUST WATCH VIDEO!
Dr. Zelenko update! Inspiring! Watch the WHOLE THING! Full of nuggets spread throughout. Also Dr. Karladine Graves with additional info and perspective.
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