Welsh hospital using blood transfusions from recovered patients to treat new cases

Thunder Bolt

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• Apr 14, 2020

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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-antibody-transfusion-wales-cardiff-18087216

Wales' biggest hospital has become the first in the UK to use a potentially groundbreaking "antibody transfusion" treatment on coronavirus patients.

The treatment being carried out on patients at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff uses the blood plasma taken from people who have already recovered from Covid-19.

Their plasma is then transfused into other patients with the coronavirus to help them fight the infection more quickly.




It's worth a try.

 

Harry Wilson's tackle

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• Apr 14, 2020

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Who would have thought that instead of Matt Hancock, the inspiration for the first treatment would come from Tony Hancock?

 

Mackenzie

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• Apr 14, 2020

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Who would have thought that instead of Matt Hancock, the inspiration for the first treatment would come from Tony Hancock?

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.....A PINT, that's nearly an armful!.....

 

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Jim D

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• Apr 14, 2020

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I wonder how much blood you need to effectively immunise someone? Will a pint do or is it a complete transfusion?

 

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Mikey_Barcelona

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• Apr 14, 2020

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This is used all over Europe, on a small scale. I think it can become one of the standard treatments in the upcoming months.

 

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Mikey_Barcelona

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• Apr 14, 2020

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Jim D said:

I wonder how much blood you need to effectively immunise someone? Will a pint do or is it a complete transfusion?

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It's plasma, not blood. Not sure how much is needed, but I am guessing not too much

https://www.jpost.com/health-scienc...to-be-treated-with-mda-passive-vaccine-624353

In fact, the procedure is very old and was used before to treat other viral infections.

 

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Jim D said:

I wonder how much blood you need to effectively immunise someone? Will a pint do or is it a complete transfusion?

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This is NOT immunisation. This is taking the thing that your body makes when you are immune (an antibody) out of your blood and giving it to someone else. If it attacks the virus it may bide you time to start making your own antibody to fight the bugger off. If you are lucky it may kill all the virus itself (my guess is this would be unlikely).

 

OzMike

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• Apr 17, 2020

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Surprised this wasn't done sooner to be honest.