A Small Ray Of Hope

[tiggerblue10]

Plasma trials to begin in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52343301

Anything is worth a try :o)

[brainiac]

...and I've read in a couple of places that good Vitamin D levels might offer protection. Thought of that on my sunny 4-mile walk today.

[marval]

I agree anything is worth having a go for.

[tiggerblue10]

Indeed. I have to take a Vit D sup. every day.

[youngmafbog]

It wont be over until the fat lady sings.

[tiggerblue10]

Direct link available now:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52348368

[ToraToraTora]

well the PM is such a case so he could donate! Who knows we could all be saved by Boris' anti bodies!

[Peter Pedant]

// I agree anything is worth having a go for.//

come on! come on! if it doesnt work, AND a certain percent get Hep C then it is NOT worf a go

sorry making my usual mistake of taking a thread seriously

I put my faith / hope on vaccines - well I would wouldnt I - I worked in a vaccine lab
but the Chief Plonka Pen Pusher the Chief Medical Officer has cast dout on theoretical grounds whether one will ever work .....

100 protovaccines all chuntering away -- -

[Peter Pedant]

// well the PM is such a case so he could donate! Who knows we could all be saved by Boris' anti bodies!//

yeah - so - you can get a really rich harvest if you leash them up to something called a plasmapheresis machine
as you such them dry ( only of a section of plasma) and leave the red stuff - you can add saline as needed

based on GG serum from the thirties
the institure of serology was run by Sir Almroth Wright at St Mary's - and since it didnt QUITR yield the results expected the medical students cruelly referred to him as
Sir Almost Right

the scoundrels