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thecrow

(5,519 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:13 PM Mar 2020

"Blood of the immune"

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March 13, 2020, 6:02 PM EDT / Updated March 13, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
By Mike Hixenbaugh
In the absence of vaccines or antiviral drugs, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore say the key to slowing and treating the coronavirus might be hidden in the blood of those who’ve already recovered from the disease.

The method of using “convalescent serum” — essentially harvesting virus-fighting antibodies from the blood of previously infected patients — dates back more than a century, but has not been used widely in the United States in decades.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/doctors-push-treatment-coronavirus-blood-recovered-patients-n1158476

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"Blood of the immune" (Original Post) thecrow Mar 2020 OP

That is not going to work. gembaby1 Mar 2020 #1

And so far, nobody is immune. 2naSalit Mar 2020 #2

There was an OP of a Japanese guy getting reinfected uponit7771 Mar 2020 #6

Wonder if they've tried treating patients blood yet? duforsure Mar 2020 #3

Isn't MRSA a bacterium, not a virus? n/t morillon Mar 2020 #4

Or children who have it an are asymptomatic uponit7771 Mar 2020 #5

It's an interesting avenue thecrow Mar 2020 #7

They do it for dogs with parvo Drahthaardogs Mar 2020 #8

gembaby1

(253 posts)

1. That is not going to work.

Reply to thecrow (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:16 PM

Mar 2020

That virus can lie dormant inside you after you’ve recovered and then reappear again. Ask the Japanese.

2naSalit

(86,634 posts)

2. And so far, nobody is immune.

Reply to thecrow (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:22 PM

Mar 2020

uponit7771

(90,344 posts)

6. There was an OP of a Japanese guy getting reinfected

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:14 PM

Mar 2020

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

3. Wonder if they've tried treating patients blood yet?

Reply to thecrow (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:38 PM

Mar 2020

Removing , disinfecting it, using ozone, then adding it back to the patient cleaned. Could they add oxygen to it until recovered? I believe one of their doctors has been doing something like that with others issues already. MRSA has been ozone treated using ozone treated oil topically , and it's one of several corona type virus.

morillon

(1,185 posts)

4. Isn't MRSA a bacterium, not a virus? n/t

Reply to duforsure (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:06 PM

Mar 2020

uponit7771

(90,344 posts)

5. Or children who have it an are asymptomatic

Reply to thecrow (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:10 PM

Mar 2020

thecrow

(5,519 posts)

7. It's an interesting avenue

Reply to thecrow (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:31 PM

Mar 2020

but I sure wouldn’t want to be in the first few rounds of testing it!

I am sure JH will do their best to isolate the antibodies though.
When you have something weird you go to JH and let them research it.

I still wouldn’t want to be among the first to try it.

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)

8. They do it for dogs with parvo

Reply to thecrow (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:59 PM

Mar 2020

Had a friend who had a parvo dog that recovered. About twice a year they would call for her to donate blood for a transfusion

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