Fauci OPPOSES plasma transfusion because there are no clinical trial for COVID? How fucking LAME is that?
Who's gonna be the control group?
It should work,it has worked -if it doesn't, then it doesn't cause any harm. WTF is wrong with Fauci/FDA??
I’ve decided Fauci isn’t all that impressive lol.
No one has a problem with RCT’s—they have their place, but in the middle of a pandemic isn’t it. In this instance random trials wouldn’t be done over safety considerations but only for efficacy.
IOW, blood plasma isn’t something novel that was produced in a pharmaceutical lab and never used on anything but rats before. It’s just the opposite: plasma is a natural product. Better yet, it’s a product of *the human body*.
Maybe someone can correct me, but not aware of an existing contraindication for a patient receiving plasma. It’s essentially the same as receiving a blood transfusion. Plasma is blood that’s been run through a centrifuge. I think the plasma is heavier but it’s been a minute lol.
The point is Fauci should know better than this. He’s way too rigid in his thinking—he’s stuck on RCT’s.
Predictably, since it was Trump’s initiative, the left and the media are trying to make a boogeymen out of a routine treatment that’s used probably a few times a day in each medium sized hospital in the country—and it’s been going on for decades.
The only difference is this time it’s being used for COVID. There’s an odd ball chance the antibodies in the convalescent plasma might cause the virus to proliferate—or whatever.
Here’s the question: when do you want to find out? Six months from now or weeks from now? That’s basically what it boils down to.
Think of it this way: let’s go the RCT route. After six months convalescent plasma is found to be both safe and effective. Meanwhile, 20,000 people who might have benefited from it have died.
Fauci would be standing up there telling us ‘well, at least we did it safely and didn’t harm anyone with it’.
That’s exactly what Fauci and the left is advocating. They did the same thing with early HCQ treatments.
Never seen anything like it.