Long story short, my family and I went to Disneyland last week and I picked up the worst something and have been miserable all week long. Doctors got the tests today and I’m going in to hopefully hear I’ve got the flu. Never thought I’d want the flu so bad in my life!
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So the test they did was two nostril swabs from quest and I tell you what, that was not a pleasant experience! Here’s what it looked like (the bottom one), they had to shove that thing in my nose to the red line both nostrils for two swabs. Here’s kind of what the process looks like
They said it’ll take up to 3 days to know, so I should have results by Monday. But on a positive note, I think I’ll be okay because my lungs were pretty clear she said!
I’ll make another comment on Monday With the results, or should I make a new post? Thanks fam!
That's what the experts are saying today. Likely to be at least 4 weeks before they could get a protocol in place to allow this to be done beyond small clinical trials, but right now it's looking like the most promising treatment (or possibly also prevention) that could be deployed in a reasonably short time frame. The antibodies in the plasma of people who have recovered can be tranfused into people who are infected, and help fight it off. Presumably this could also be used a prevention for active infection, and if so that use would probably be limited to health care workers and others who are at high risk for infection through their urgently important work.
This sounds familiar - didn't they use this approach to save some of the Ebola patients?
I don't recall, but it's quite possible.
This would only work AFTER patients have fully recovered. It's an interesting idea for a quick vaccine / remedy / therapy.
Should be minimal to no side effects or risks?
Only risk I can think of would be other infectious agents getting transferred along with the plasma, but I think our protocols for screening those out have been pretty nearly perfected, You don't hear about anyone contracting HIV from blood or plasma transfusions any more.
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