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Despite my best efforts, I have managed to come down with Covid 19.

Felt strange Saturday night, and was sick as a dog Sunday. Fever, body aches, cough, all that good stuff. My hunting buddies wife (who is a nurse) came back positive on Monday, he on Tuesday. My test on Wed. was also positive. He and I spent last week deer hunting together.

Being high risk, my doctor signed me up for a new treatment protocol called "Infusion Therapy". Same treatment President Trump took. A high dose cocktail of antibodies administered via I.V. at my local hospital. This treatment was just recently given emergency authorization by the FDA.

Just completed it about two hours ago. My buddy will also be undergoing the same treatment this evening.

I have talked to as many nurses and Dr.'s as I could about it in the last couple days, and they all have said with what they have seen so far, it really can make a difference, and has greatly cut the number of patients they have seen who feel only so-so, think they are getting better after about a week, then crash.

So, time will tell. The reason I am posting this is to let folks on this forum know about this treatment, and its availability now to the public. If you are high risk, and come up positive, I would ask my Dr. about this option, and frankly wouldn't take "no" for an answer, knowing what I have learned about its effectiveness.

My friends wife, who has no risk factors, is not doing well. She is now hospitalized on oxygen, and is no longer a candidate for this therapy. It must be administered 10 days or less from the start of symptoms, and should not be used once oxygen therapy is needed.

This China virus is no joke.

Larry
 
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Best wishes for your friend's wife. My wife is in very poor health & a high risk for this virus so we're very careful. Her recent hospitalization turned out not to be the virus but it scared the devil out of me, we've been married 52 years.
 
My wife had a kidney transplant 3 years ago, and is on anti-rejection drugs that severely compromise her immune system. I have been trying to keep her isolated, but being as she is an extrovert it is a full time job trying to satisfy her desire for contact with friends with her safety.

The scary thing here is that the crisis has reached a point where they are developing schemes to ration health care, and I don't where on the spectrum she would be if the worst came to the worst.

Edited to add: It looks like she isn't a candidate for the Pfizer vaccine as seen in the FDA document found here: https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

"Although the proportion of participants at high risk of severe COVID-19 is adequate for the overall evaluation of safety in the available follow-up period, the subset of certain groups such as immunocompromised individuals (e.g., those with HIV/AIDS) is too small to evaluate efficacy outcomes."

And: "Safety in certain subpopulations
There are currently insufficient data to make conclusions about the safety of the vaccine in subpopulations such as children less than 16 years of age, pregnant and lactating individuals, and immunocompromised individuals."
 
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Good luck. Had it a few weeks ago. For me, It wasn't too bad. Just hoping my RN wife doesn't get it.


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Best wishes for a quick recovery for you, your bud and his wife.
Good luck to all the health care pros with avoiding this bug.

Friend I've known my entire life is home on O2 and his wife is recovering nicely while an all time great neighbor in great shape at 76 died last month. My wife and I still work 5 days but I've been avoiding some of the the extra shifts as not to wear myself down.
Taking this all seriously but still keeping some bad practices.
 

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