It is a simple adaptation of the well-known and well-understood plasma arc cutting technology. It instantly kills all virus particles it touches.
Posted on 08/23/2020 2:10:06 PM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON (AP) — After expressing frustration at the slow pace of approval for coronavirus treatments, President Donald Trump was set to announce on Sunday the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients.
The announcement will come after days of White House officials suggesting there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump’s reelection chances.
On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Trump was set to issue the emergency order — which would make it easier for some patients to obtain the treatment — in a news conference Sunday evening, according to White House officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If you read the article there trashing the idea...No real studies...
A top FDA official who is overseeing COVID vaccine trials had vowed to resign if the Trump administration approves a vaccine before it is shown to be safe and effective. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, made his promise during a conference call earlier in the month with pharmaceutical executives, government officials and others, Reuters reported Friday.
“I think this administration has put more pressure on the Food and Drug Administration than I can remember” ever happening in the past, Schaffner said.
“Everybody is just a little bit nervous,” he said.
Thank God!!
What’s plasma treatment?
“””“I think this administration has put more pressure on the Food and Drug Administration than I can remember” ever happening in the past, Schaffner said.”””””””””
So you actually have to get on with it and do your job?
Must suck to be you.
Plasma treatment is transfusion of blood plasma from recovered patients.
It’s giving COVID victims blood plasma donated by people who have recovered from COVID. The idea is that recovered patients have antibodies in their blood plasma that can help a patient’s immune system fight the infection.
Oh wow. Cool.
With, I hope, effective screening for viruses.
Or something similar to that.
Boy I know so little about this arena that i can’t even put my one cent in :)
My cousin has Cooley’s Anemia. She’s maybe 43 now.
Blood transfusion every 2 weeks and a pump that clean out her blood every night.
Treatments JUST came out when she was born.
They used to live until maybe early teens.
Medicine, when done right and for the right reasons, is wonderful. And YES, I believe profit is one of those right reasons...as long as it’s on the up and up.
I know. Stop laughing :)
LOL!
I thought so
FYI ping
This isn’t something new in the treatment arena... they have been using it for critical patients for sometime now. What’s different?
It is a simple adaptation of the well-known and well-understood plasma arc cutting technology. It instantly kills all virus particles it touches.
It looks safe! I’ll go first!
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Plasma flare. If you're in one you don't have to worry about CoVid.
I’ll test that one too!
Please do it already.
RESIGN NOW!
And good riddance when he resigns.
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