Doctors can't use COVID-19 antibodies from gay men or anyone taking PrEP

Yahoo News ^ | 04/02/2020 | Tim Fitzsimons

[SeekAndFind]

He was given an appointment Tuesday at the New York Blood Center and received a text with instructions to eat food and drink water before showing up. But just a few hours before his appointment, he said, he got a call from Mount Sinai saying, "Actually, you're not going to be able to donate because you are on Truvada."

[Delta 21]

Fags need not apply.

[ealgeone]

talk about high risk.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m sure we’re going to start hearing howls of “discrimination
!” despite the very sound medical reasons for this.

[FreedomPoster]

Good.

[txrefugee]

How much is every homosexual being subsidized by US taxpayers so they can have recreational sex? Those drugs aren’t free.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Based on how often the disturbing ads run on television, its in the billions.

[Wuli]

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.

[kickstart]

If homosexuals with AIDS were quarantined like Covid-19 patients, maybe we would not have to worry about their blood being bad.

[gas_dr]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course they can't! These perverts all harbor a cocktail of disgusting viruses and bacteria which,if introduced into anyone else,would kill them within days.

These pervs should be required to wear hazmat suits,not allowed to donate anything to anyone else.

[norwaypinesavage]

How many people would agree to taking a drug that cures the virus but gives them AIDS?

[Kozak]

They successfully lobbied to be able to donate blood so don’t be surprised.

[Tench_Coxe]

"I’m sure we’re going to start hearing howls of “discrimination !” despite the very sound medical reasons for this."

That is how HIV got a hold in the US.

[Black Agnes]

One reason we’ll never see an HIV vaccine...

[CodeToad]

Yet another reason to ban homosexuality: They become a drain and not a help to society.

[Tell It Right]

He said "I could literally not smell s---."

A lot of us probably would like to not smell it. But to him it would remove a substantial experience of his lifestyle. :)

[ronniesgal]

those ads are the worst.

[alancarp]

A quote from the end of the article, which of course went unchallenged:

'"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.

[DUMBGRUNT]

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.