From: slider@atashram.com

Doctors say the government is dragging its feet on approving plasma
therapy trials for treating patients suffering from COVID-19.

Doctors in the UK say they're increasingly frustrated the government has
yet to approve trials for plasma therapy to help treat coronavirus
patients.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-doctors-frustrated-by-delays-in-plasma-therapy-trials-for-covid-19-patients-11972462

The therapy involves extracting plasma from the blood of people who have recovered from the virus, and giving it to those who are critically ill.

The idea is that antibodies produced by patients who have had survived the virus will boost the immune systems of those who are trying to beat the disease.

So far more than 10,000 people have already died with COVID-19 across the
UK.

Trials for plasma therapy are already under way in other countries
including China, France, Germany and the US but no decision has been made
in the UK.

Dr Colin Hamilton-Davies leads the acute cardiac critical care unit at
Bart's Hospital in London and has spent 30 years looking at this line of research.

He said lives could be saved if action is taken immediately.

"We have a national health service and blood service that is the envy of
the world, we have a very substantially-sized department of blood
transfusion, and for people harvesting blood plasma, we could step it up
within a week.

"We could be administering it, not just to one or two people, but hundreds
of patients."

There are no effective treatments for COVID-19 patients. Studies are under
way into the use of antivirals and steroids, but many say the use of
plasma therapy has yet to be adequately explored.

Dr Hamilton-Davies has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock and
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab offering his expertise.

Last week, Mr Raab responded and sent a letter to Mr Hancock asking about
the use of plasma therapy but no decision has been made on when trials
will begin.

But Dr Hamilton-Davies is concerned that the delay is costing valuable
research time.

"It's incredibly frustrating," he said.

"It's not only myself, but many colleagues are saying 'why aren't we
looking at this in greater depth and in a faster timeframe?'

"There is a research framework which is up and running, which it may or
may not become part of. I very much hope it does. This is something we
could get up and running very quickly indeed."

The treatment has been used with some success for Ebola and SARS and many experts agree it should be trialled for COVID-19 patients in the UK.

Dr Muhammad Munir, a molecular virologist at Lancaster University, told
Sky News: "Plasma treatment is an interim solution and should be done at
all costs because what we're looking into is a vaccine for next year. The plasma is something we can offer and it is in our hands.

"It would be extremely disappointing if this effort shouldn't be made in
place - and especially at a time when so many people are recovering and
they can be a valuable source of collection of the plasma."

A spokesperson for NHS Blood and Transplant said: "We have
well-established plans for dealing with new diseases, including the
collection of convalescent plasma.

"We are working closely with government and other NHS bodies to look at
the ways in which we can best support work being undertaken to tackle COVID-19."

### - they really 'are' dragging their heels here aren't they! no sign (or mention even) of the chloroquine trials or how they're proceeding or if
showing any positive results so far, for example, nada! plus absolutely
nada mentioned about plasma trials (a standard fucking treatment ffs!)
either, except from doctors in the field wondering why the fuck not??

wtf! WHY??

could it be as chris (am sure only kinda jokingly) implied/suggested, that
they thus kinda 'want' a goodly amount of us to die-off because there's
just too many of us; that what's happening is thus a kind of 'allowed'
cull aimed at increasing herd-immunity??

to not even 'trial' plasma transfusions by NOW is highly suspect really,
like maybe they already 'know' there's no hope in attaining any immunity?

it does seem rather strange doesn't it!

russia otoh, has today announced trialling plasma treatments (and they
must have at least the same info we do innit) so it can only be us here in
the uk dragging our fuckin' heels, as usual, with potential cures!

don't get it personally, we're supposed to be quite smart here in the uk, highly innovative and inventive and all that, so what the hell's happened
to us?? lol...

as an added footnote to all this: they're only just beginning to admit
here now that 1000's more people have died (and are dying) from the virus
at home and/or in nursing homes & hospices etc, huge numbers that haven't
so far been (or being) recorded in the official figures to date: 1000's
more! as they thus continue to 'massage' the figures (fuck with the data
iow) to deliberately make it 'look' like the curve is flattening when
it's, in fact, rising more steeply than ever!

so is all that 'power' going to their heads maybe?

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