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Posted on 04/12/2021 5:16:45 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A follow-up study of 33 people who received Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine in early trials show the antibodies it induced are still present six months after the second dose. "Antibody activity remained high in all age groups," researchers said. They confirmed the findings using three different tests, according to a report on Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. Earlier this month, Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE said their vaccine using similar messenger RNA (mRNA) technology remained highly effective for at least six months.. The researchers conducting the Moderna vaccine study will continue to follow the same volunteers to see whether the antibodies last longer than six months.
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Lung transplants can save some COVID-19 survivors
Surgeons worldwide have been performing lung transplants in COVID-19 survivors with irreversible lung damage, and an international group of transplant experts has proposed guidelines for selection of eligible patients. To possibly qualify for a transplant, COVID-19 survivors with complete lung failure should be younger than 65, nonsmokers, and have no pre-existing medical conditions, or only manageable ones, they advise. They said transplants should be performed at least four weeks after a diagnosis of irreversible lung damage. In the United States alone, more than 50 double lung transplants have been performed on COVID-19 survivors, and all the patients are alive, said Dr. Ankit Bharat of Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, who has performed a dozen of them. A study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine that examined 12 of the first double-lung transplants performed in COVID-19 patients in the United States, Italy, Austria and India showed that all but two survived and are doing well, said co-author Bharat. "It's a really remarkable outcome, given how critically ill these patients were," he said.
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But am Israeli study shows mrna increases risk to new variants conpared to those without the vaccine.
Pretty silly headline. If they survived why do they need saving? OK I'll read the article now :-)
What does a lung transplant cost and how long do they last?
Then is the patient on a lot of expensive drugs after the lung transplant?
That was specifically the Pfizer vaccine regarding the South African variant. I believe it was an increase of 8 times of someone vaccinated vs someone who wasn’t and had contracted batflu and recovered.
So what to do?
I would guess these are cases that survived but suffered permanent lung damage that really reduced 02 capacity.
But hasn’t the presence of anti-bodies been shown ineffective against contracting the China Virus?
Yes, I have heard that some severe cases result in lung scarring worse than a 50 year cigarette smoker.
I am curious how successful lung transplants may be, what’s the survival rate and the 5 or 10 year survival rate.
Not what the study shows
But wait. The disease doesnt harm anyone who is young and health. Why would we need to transplant chronic lung failure patients who are under 65 and have no comorbidities. Everyone says there is no risk and this is a hoax!
I don’t think anything prevents contracting the virus other than staying away from just about everything and everyone. The best you can hope for is an asymptomatic case. Ideally these vaccines can do that for large numbers of people.
The study shows that in the very few people who breakthrough, it is 8x more likely to be the South African variant. That is what the study says, not that you are 8x more likely to get the virus.
I would also not imagine this is a viable option for all people in this situation.
Don’t worry about getting replacement lungs. Communist China has millions of ‘volunteers’ available to provide lungs. Amazing how many Christians and Uyghurs are so ‘willing’ to sacrifice their lungs for foreigners. Communist China is very happy to save the lives of foreigners, as long as it involves solid cash or gold bullion, silver too.
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Nobody says it doesn’t harm the young. It’s just less likely to be a severe infection among younger people.
Vaccines seem to help reduce serious illness, but we as society and government made a very critical error in not spending money to research treatments for those infected. Vaccines are of no use to them.
And nobody knows what the long term ramifications of a mild infection may be. We do know what harm a severe infection can cause.
Can someone help me,
I thought that you wanted your T-cells to remember what an actual covid type virus is, not have high antibodies looking for only one spike.
If you have lots of antibodies after 6 months than your cells may still be making strange engineered spike proteins here and there ... ?
I can’t imagine it would be. I suppose it depends on the numbers of people who were so severely ill that they need a transplant, and the number of surgeons and donors available.
The researchers found the prevalence of B.1.351 among patients who received two doses of the vaccine was about eight times higher than those who were unvaccinated.
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