"This virus may never go away," WHO says

[3NUMBAS]

KARACHI, Pakistan — The first Pakistani COVID-19 patient who was treated at a hospital with blood donated from a man who survived the disease has fully recovered.

The patient was treated at a hospital in the country’s southern Sindh province.

Several COVID-19 patients are currently undergoing the plasma therapy after authorities allowed 350 patients to undergo such a clinical trial across the country.

A Pakistani doctor who treated the patient has urged those who defeated coronavirus to donate blood for the treatment that uses plasma from people who have recovered to help seriously ill patients.

The development comes as Pakistan reported 31 more deaths from coronavirus, raising virus-related fatalities to 834.

Pakistan has 38,799 confirmed cases and the increase in infections also coincides with a growing number of daily tests being carried out in this country of 220 million.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/latest-italy-easing-travel-restrictions-70718303

[Crazy Alex]

1 minute ago, 3NUMBAS said:

KARACHI, Pakistan — The first Pakistani COVID-19 patient who was treated at a hospital with blood donated from a man who survived the disease has fully recovered.

The patient was treated at a hospital in the country’s southern Sindh province.

Several COVID-19 patients are currently undergoing the plasma therapy after authorities allowed 350 patients to undergo such a clinical trial across the country.

A Pakistani doctor who treated the patient has urged those who defeated coronavirus to donate blood for the treatment that uses plasma from people who have recovered to help seriously ill patients.

The development comes as Pakistan reported 31 more deaths from coronavirus, raising virus-related fatalities to 834.

Pakistan has 38,799 confirmed cases and the increase in infections also coincides with a growing number of daily tests being carried out in this country of 220 million.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/latest-italy-easing-travel-restrictions-70718303

Very cool. I wonder how much blood we can realistically expect to get from these people. Obviously, we cant' force them. But I would certainly give blood if it helped. I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way.

[nattaya09]

11 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Do you "condition" yourself for the flu?

 

On this they are right. It's not going away any more than the common cold.

In the sense that you go about life. If you catch it, you deal with it and gain some immunity from it so your resistance might be stronger next time you encounter it.  Ultimately, a vaccine will help keep the annual death rate lower. We have had a flu vaccine for decades, immunize about 170 million in the US annually and still have 50-60,000 deaths a year...half of which took the vaccine.