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NYC Doctors perform first ever heart transplant from an HIV-positive donor - hope breakthrough will help tame America's massive shortage of heart donations
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Posted on 07/29/2022 5:02:01 PM PDT by algore
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To: metmom
No I didn’t. They both have HIV.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:17:54 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:18:47 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: algore
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:20:24 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: algore
Donor AND recipient were HIV positive - HIV to HIV ..... I don’t have a problem with that.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:32:31 PM PDT
by
Qiviut
(#standup "Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
To: algore
and it’ been COMPLETELY exsanguinatedan and ultra flushed right???
still no...
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:42:46 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: DoughtyOne
“I’ve never heard the 100k figure, “
Read the article ...
To: algore
Roughly 1/3 of one percent of the US population is HIV positive.
That's not even a rounding error, and certainly not enough to relieve a shortage of hearts to transplant.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:52:39 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
To: Beowulf9
Yes and the recipient was also HIV positive.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:03:45 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
To: TexasGator
Wow…
They tossed that out there? It’s even more absurd that number will resolve a shortage.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:07:53 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
To: DoughtyOne
To: Chickensoup
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:12:01 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: TexasGator
You are addressing a different group than I was.
I was addressing the approximate percentage of homosexuals to the populace. It’s around 2%. Then we’re taking a fraction of that 2%, who are HIV positive.
Some additional lives will be saved and that is good, but it can’t make a significant impact on the over all shortage.
I thought the title was misleading.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:23:46 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
To: DoughtyOne
“You are addressing a different group than I was.”
Did you go to the link I gave you?
My post specifically referred to the 98% you mentioned in your post, not the 2%.
To: TigersEye
Great movie. In my opinion, Mel Brooks’ best.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:33:17 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: TexasGator
If that 100,000 figure comes from the entire populace, how many organs will be available from a 2% portion of the populace? Of that two percent people have to die with no damage to the heart, decreasing the number even further.
I’d reference this as the ability to extrapolate meaning from the numbers, not comprehension skills:
“…hope breakthrough will help tame America’s massive shortage of heart donations”
That’s about like saying 200 hamburgers will help end massive hunger in the the U. S.
I had a quibble with the way this was framed in the headline.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:35:25 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
To: ought-six
I think I can agree with that. I also think it’s been enough years since I’ve seen it that I could watch it again.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:36:36 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
To: TigersEye
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:38:35 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: TexasGator
I think my last post to you should frame it about right.
A splinter group from the two percent, simply can not make any meaningful impact on reducing the shortage from the 98% of the populace.
Some more lives will be saved. That’s good.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:40:15 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
To: ought-six
I always thought so ... quite apart from her role in Young Frankenstein.
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:40:19 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
To: algore
I know that those wanting organ transplants have to go thru a strict strict regime including not having other medical problems besides the obvious...generally a person with heart problems doesn't get very high up on the kidney transplant list, at least that was what happened with my SIL....
transplant patients cost a bundle for the govt and insurances and not just the operation itself, but the follow up with multiple meds....and then of course, the big chance that due to the immune suppression meds the patient actually gets sick with something else....
so this case sounds very very odd....
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posted on
07/29/2022 7:41:32 PM PDT
by
cherry
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