Re:Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments
by tim333 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @08:28AM
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This has been reported to work:
>China National Biotec Group has been using this plasma, which contains highly potent antibodies, to treat more than 10 seriously ill patients since Feb 8,
> It claimed that those receiving the treatment improved within 24 hours, with reduced inflammation and viral loads along with better oxygen levels in the blood.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-seeks-plas...
Re:Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments
by londons_explore on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:50AM
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It has many of the same risks as cannibalism - there are lots of unknown viruses and proteins that normally don't get transferred from person to person, but could cause harm, and if you start distributing them widely, you're gonna have problems.
Re:Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments
by blueprint on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:44AM
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can the relevant antibodies be isolated?
Re:Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments
by londons_explore on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:28AM
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Viruses and prions are so small it's pretty much impossible to be sure you have removed them all from some sample.
Sure you can remove most, but you'll never get all of them.
I’m surprised we don’t see this type of treatment more often. It might be worth it to set up infrastructure to do this type of treatment at scale everywhere, since it presumably works in most recoverable viral infections.