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Instant Covid Relief - Plop Plop Fizz Fizz Oh What a Relief It Is !
2020-12-28
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The drug that gives 'instant immunity' to coronavirus? UK trials new antibody therapy that can stop people who have been exposed to COVID becoming ill and it could save MILLIONS of lives across the globe
  • AstraZeneca‘s AZD7442 would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine

  • It could be given as an emergency treatment to hospital inpatients, care home residents and university students to help reduce the spread of the virus

  • Scientists from the University College London Hospitals NHS (UCLH) have injected ten people with the drug
Posted by:ee green

#7  I want a one-horse pony
Posted by: Veruca Biden   2020-12-28 21:20  

#6  This is known as passive immunization. It's been used for (almost) 200 year.

Two hundred years? Jeez, Louise! This is the 21st century. Can't we have little nanobot submarines that swim in our bloodstream and hunt invading viruses? Also, Raquel Welch in a white jumpsuit.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-12-28 20:20  

#5  I will gargle with warm salt water....thank you very much grandma.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2020-12-28 19:39  

#4  Wonder if their fire policy is up to date.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-12-28 15:43  

#3  They have tested it on ten volunteers, and hope to work up to 1,200 for the next round. This isn’t close to being market ready. I suppose, though, that any hospital with a hematology lab and a centrifuge could spin off some of the stuff from blood taken from a Covid survivor and be good to go.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-28 13:52  

#2  The FDA will sit on this one until Pres. Harris is re-elected.

Can't have hope springing eternal and all that.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-12-28 09:10  

#1  This is known as passive immunization. It's been used for (almost) 200 year. In the specific case of covid - it's what they gave to Trump.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-12-28 07:57  

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