Posted on 04/02/2020 6:36:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York City resident Sabri Ben-Achour, 39, began to feel ill on March 12 and experienced roughly 36 hours of intense symptoms: fever, aches, fatigue, cough and headache.
But by March 14, Ben-Achour felt back to normal, except for one thing: Both his sense of smell and taste were gone.
"I couldn't smell anything," he said. "I could literally not smell s---." He ordered from an Indian restaurant: "I asked them to make it extra salty and extra spicy, and it tasted like water."
By March 16, he was fairly certain he had contracted and recuperated from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. But like countless other New Yorkers who fell ill over the past six weeks, he heeded official advice not to take a test unless he was seriously ill.
Last week, however, he saw an advertisement for the Mount Sinai Health System's convalescent plasma study — an effort to collect the antibody-rich plasma of people who have recovered from COVID-19 and inject it into critically ill patients. He applied online right away.
After a Mount Sinai screener asked him a few intake questions about his prior symptoms and the medications he is taking, namely the HIV-prevention pill Truvada, Ben-Achour made an appointment to go to the hospital, where he had his blood drawn Saturday.
On Monday, he got a phone call: He had, indeed, contracted and recovered from COVID-19, his blood had a "robust" level of antibodies, and the Mount Sinai doctors wanted him to donate his blood as quickly as possible so his plasma could be extracted and used in an experimental infusion on critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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Fags need not apply.
talk about high risk.
I’m sure we’re going to start hearing howls of “discrimination
!” despite the very sound medical reasons for this.
Good.
How much is every homosexual being subsidized by US taxpayers so they can have recreational sex? Those drugs aren’t free.
Based on how often the disturbing ads run on television, its in the billions.
The persons answer to the demands needed to be a donor”
“But obviously not for a year — that would be putting myself in danger.”
Translation: He CANNOT abstain from being promiscuous with other men for a year. He is only “in danger” for that reason and none other.
If homosexuals with AIDS were quarantined like Covid-19 patients, maybe we would not have to worry about their blood being bad.
So here is the interesting question everyone is overlooking. Did the antiretroviral prophylaxis shorten his duration of symptoms. Put aside the he can’t donate. That is fair. But the science may suggest that the Truevada protected him to some degree
These pervs should be required to wear hazmat suits,not allowed to donate anything to anyone else.
How many people would agree to taking a drug that cures the virus but gives them AIDS?
They successfully lobbied to be able to donate blood so don’t be surprised.
That is how HIV got a hold in the US.
One reason we’ll never see an HIV vaccine...
Yet another reason to ban homosexuality: They become a drain and not a help to society.
A lot of us probably would like to not smell it. But to him it would remove a substantial experience of his lifestyle. :)
those ads are the worst.
'"By restricting gay and bisexual men, and other LGBTQ people, who have recovered from COVID-19 from donating plasma, the FDA is severely limiting the health care industry's ability to explore potentially lifesaving treatment for COVID-19," she said. GLAAD launched a petition to repeal the policy last month.'
Severely? Not unless the LGBTQ-Alphabet population is at least a third of the total population, and even in New York that's hardly likely.
As to the restrictions on giving blood, they can go pound sand: I can't ever give blood either, and that comes from simply being in England for 3+ weeks during their mad Cow disease scare in the mid/late 1980's.
One reason we’ll never see an HIV vaccine...
And apparently there is no accepted HIV in blood test?
Therefore: we should play Russian roulette with the blood supply.
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