New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential therapies for Covid-19

Re:New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential t... by pvaldes on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:05AM (#24050060)

With ebola was standard the use of blood transfusions from people that developped antibodies against it. This path is not being explored here, and sometimes I wonder why. We have plenty of people that recovered

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Re:New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential t... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:10AM (#24050133)

It is happening, on quite a large scale too, e.g. [1]

1: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/plasma-donati...

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Re:New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential t... by pvaldes on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:27AM (#24058805)

Looks like a good idea, but It seems that neither Europe nor the official healthcare US system is adopting or giving a lot of credit to that.

So maybe is basically a PR and blood donor campaign from the american redcross, a charity managing several private hospitals.

I had seen several strange measures adopted with the excuse of COVID. From ozone machines to, for example, the university requiring than students for the next year tie their hair when in the faculties. I can't see any relationship between having long hair and having COVID...

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