A California-based biopharmaceutical company claims to have discovered an antibody that could shield the human body from the coronavirus and flush it out of a person’s system within four days, Fox News has exclusively learned.
Later Friday, Sorrento Therapeutics will announce their discovery of the STI-1499 antibody, which the San Diego company said can provide “100% inhibition” of COVID-19, adding that a treatment could be available months before a vaccine hits the market.
As chemists, we are troubled by the challenges to mass producing remdesivir. We aren’t alone.
J’Accuse…! “The society failed”.
CNN was unavailable for comment: Greta Thunberg admits to lack of Coronavirus expertise
Chinada — The litany of apologies and obsequiousness by Canada is one that only a lickspittle would salute
ZERO CASES IN THE REGION and Sask Health is also closing ER’s in Preeceville, Herbert, Arcola, and Davidson as farm activity ramps up for seeding. This is madness.
Your related tips in the comments. Chatter discouraged.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/05/14/new-study-may-shed-light-on-which-men-are-more-susceptible-to-severe-covid-19-illness-n392133
This disease isn’t just racist, it’s also anti tranny. Above article says it adversely affects low T men, and high T women, aka men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men
Your the racist for bringing up men and women.
Kate, very much appreciate these news round ups.
With regards to Sorrento; YES! Make it so. This article gives hope to end this pandemic and prevent the far greater damage being done to lives by the quarantine/lockdown. I know nothing about the industrial manufacturing of anti-bodies so now I have a new quest to learn more.
I mentioned Distributed Bio (distributedbio.com) who announced six weeks ago that they had developed anti-bodies. I think that they are supposed to be making some kind of further about their therapies.
As for Remdesivir, very interested to see that in the manufacturing process, they have to lower the reaction to -76 C at certain points. Again, not a chemist, but to my mind, that seems like it does not bode well for mass production!
-76 C doesn’t look like much of a problem to me. Boiling point of liquid nitrogen is -196 C.
I saw the word madness used in relation to Sask. hospital closures. Well, that would be the definition for everything in Canada and the world for the last four months, madness.
“Greta Thunberg admits to lack of Coronavirus expertise”
Of course not YOU, she’s a global sciences and climate expert.
Her expertise has nothing to do with anything. CNN is bringing her on board to shore up their collapsing ratings, as she brings some star power however illusory. This is simply CNN confessing that it’s about entertainment and has essentially nothing to do with actual news.
Throughout the C-19 epidemic, CNN has been getting trashed by Fox. In fact Fox is drawing more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined. Zucker can’t possibly reverse tracks and take a less progressive slant on the news so he and his executive team have to pull this kind of stunt.
I believe Greta is an expert asshole, so she can take heart that she’s not alone.
Its not as good as the Libranos but the Lickspittle Liberals is still a keeper.
Anyone who abandons their job of taking care of others who are vulnerable needs to be fined into poverty.
“Sask Health is also closing ER’s in Preeceville, Herbert, Arcola, and Davidson as farm activity ramps up for seeding. This is madness.”
Why? Isn’t this similar to what Pallister did in Manitoba, or what Saskatchewan did in the ’90s? Saskatchewan shut down a bunch of rinky-dink nowhere-hospitals and health outcomes improved because people went to hospitals actually worth a damn.
I would be very cautious about that Sorrento antibody. There is a long long list of mAbs that neutralize great in the test plate and when injected in vivo do nothing or make the infection worse.
It had been hoped that the coronavirus had already infected lots of people and that would mean it’s IFR is low and this thing is almost over. Those appear to be contradicted by multiple new studies (they imply and IFR of about 0.6)
https://reason.com/2020/05/14/coronavirus-has-infected-2-8-percent-of-hoosiers-says-new-study/
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-french-study-dashes-hopes-that-covid-19-prevalence-is-more-widespread-than-previously-thought
Ventilators are not a death sentence: “But Cooke, and others, say the New York figure was misleading because the analysis included only patients who had either died or been discharged. “”So folks who were actually in the midst of fighting their illness were not being included in the statistic of patients who were still alive,” he says. Those patients made up more than half of all the people in the study.
And yet there are other studies that say otherwise. We are not going to know with any certainty until much later, like all virus pandemic/epidemics. But it is easy to pick and chose stories that support one “side” or the other. The facts will eventually come out, and that is important.
“The headline result is that 15% of that population was infected, which implies an Infection Fatality Rate of 0.36%. This would put him somewhat in the middle of the previous experts we have spoken to. Professor Streeck was keen to point out, however, that he still believes this is a conservative estimate, and thinks it may be closer to 0.24-0.26% and may come down further still as we know more. He published the higher number to err on the side of caution: “it is more important to have the most conservative estimate and see the virus as more dangerous than it is,” he said.”
https://unherd.com/thepost/german-virologist-finds-covid-fatality-rate-of-0-24-0-36/
Findings
By the 19th April 2020 the infection R has fallen over the from 2.8 on 23rd March before the lockdown and has stabilised at about 0.8 sufficient for suppression. However there remain significant variations between England regions.
Regression analysis across UTLAs found that the only factor relating to reduction in ADIR was the historic number of confirmed number infection/000 population, There is however wide variation between Upper Tier Local Authorities (UTLA) areas. Extrapolation of these results showed that unreported community infection may be >200 times higher than reported cases, providing evidence that by the end of the second week in April, 29% of the population may already have had the disease and so have increased immunity.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijcp.13528?af=R&utm_campaign=LNCH++20200514+++SM+CID_52cfa8c946bd67c5a600d6f288862cef&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial
I must ask U-nothing.
Ever been on a (ventilator) ? I bet not.
Do you know this is the last try when it comes to saving someones life.
Got your medical deg from where? Me (UCSD) medical center San Diego.
Sorry I forgot the link.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/856768020/new-evidence-suggests-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators-usually-survive
PS… in 1969, when I was a teenager we had the Hong Kong flu. Got any idea how many died. 1 million across the world. 100.000 in the USA. Did we hide in our homes, nope (WOODSTOCK) baby.
1) This is not the flu 2) Of course it has not occurred to you that the number of deaths could be much higher without at least some of the mitigation measures taken.
Say what… Un-nothing.
Firstly, COVID-19 and influenza viruses have a similar disease presentation. That is, they both cause respiratory disease, which presents as a wide range of illness from asymptomatic or mild through to severe disease and death.
Secondly, both viruses are transmitted by contact, droplets and fomites. As a result, the same public health measures, such as hand hygiene and good respiratory etiquette (coughing into your elbow or into a tissue and immediately disposing of the tissue), are important actions all can take to prevent infection.
The speed of transmission is an important point of difference between the two viruses. Influenza has a shorter median incubation period (the time from infection to appearance of symptoms) and a shorter serial interval (the time between successive cases) than COVID-19 virus. The serial interval for COVID-19 virus is estimated to be 5-6 days, while for influenza virus, the serial interval is 3 days. This means that influenza can spread faster than COVID-19.
Stop play Doc you fool.
“This means that influenza can spread faster than COVID-19.”
That is exactly wrong Sars2 is far more transmissible. Further, there’s no vaccine or general immunity to Sars2 and it appears to have a higher IFR.
Hi Dustoff. You now see why so many of us distain UnMe. We have a wide field of expertise here, and it (don’t know whether male/female, don’t care) proceeds to lecture us on our areas of expertise with the certainty of a child who has been told something once. Hence my “shush, the grown-ups are talking.”
Which is too bad. Sometimes good points are brought to life, but in such a way that discussion becomes impossible.
You mean, like injecting a disinfectant?
My first thought too. Orange Man Dumb, I mean Orange Man Bad.
Kowtowing to the Chicoms: it’s a Liberal thing. Anyone who votes for the LPC after this shit show joins TWANLOC – those who are no longer our countrymen.
Some conclusions from Chris Martenson’s latest. Worth watching his vlogs on the topic.
Ivermectin works
Zinz +HCQ (+antibiotic azithromycin) works
Vitamin D, the data on its benefits continues to accumulate.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2UoBUcW2I
Oh look another YT disinformation locus. Google needs to delete all of these.
Curious, you’re suggesting Chris Martenson is spreading misinformation?
And you favor censorship?
Playing doctor again. Un-nothing
I’ll ask again, where did you get your medical deg at?
After its highly successful show of having Greta explain the China virus to people, CNN has Don Lemon and Van Jones on tonight to explain how white bastards are spreading the virus among black people. Obviously Trump put them up to it.
An interesting read on droplets/spread. Dose+time.
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them?fbclid=IwAR2XH1GuUR18COSrfjbNlvlrkHK4XegLzVSKiMxCZ6t6DCcpexPhsDN0ims
“All these infection events were indoors, with people closely-spaced, with lots of talking, singing, or yelling. The main sources for infection are home, workplace, public transport, social gatherings, and restaurants. This accounts for 90% of all transmission events.”
https://quillette.com/2020/04/23/covid-19-superspreader-events-in-28-countries-critical-patterns-and-lessons/
“In 1899, a German bacteriologist named Carl Flügge proved that microbes can be transmitted ballistically through large droplets that emit at high velocity from the mouth and nose.”
Distributed Bio dropping a press release on Monday.
https://twitter.com/CurlyJungleJake/status/1261338915899760641
CNN has changed from a news network to a pseudo reality TV show network that is more of a mockumentary of a real news channel.
When I saw the Sorrento piece this morning, I was initially “excited”. Then I realised that the founder/CEO and two of the vice presidents are from mainland China. Now, they might be fine people, but that raises the eff out of my alarm sensors these days. Just like any “study” originating in China that proposes anything related to Covid out of China.
“It’s hard for Canada to stand up to China while it’s bowing”
That’s a polite way of saying it’s hard to stand up to China when you’re bent over and taking it up the…
Or on one’s knees, doing something else.
It’s good to be on an island. Especially Vancouver Island, even when much of the population is crazy town leftist.
Our stats: pop. 870,000. Wuhan cases: 126 active or recovered. Hospitalized: 1 (non-ICU) Rate of infection: .00058. Yet the whole Island remains shut-down, with an announcement today, that 20% of elementary school students can go to school each day before teachers begin a well deserved two month vacation. Gosh, if another person is hospitalized here, our rate will have increased 100% and we’ll need to double down on our isolation.
China tried to persuade New Zealand not to implement tough lockdown Coronavirus restrictions.
https://www.newsweek.com/new-zealand-china-winston-peters-coronavirus-lockdown-1504016?amp=1
Almost like they wanted New Zealanders to get sick.
Thanks Joe, good article!
I see it references the chi-coms displeasure at New Zealand backing USA push to get Taiwan into WHO as observer.
They’re quite sensitive it seems. Complaining about Kenney, unhappy with New Zealand.
Fascist rulers of a billion + people, hyper concerned about opinions & actions in countries 🙂 of a few million people far, far away.
$10 says Sorrento is a pump and dump. Colon want to take that bet?
So, you’re still alive …
Business is running my butt off . Finally taking a break.
Try KY.
Kentucky?
Why are so many people getting sick and dying in “Irregular” Montreal?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/coronavirus-montreal-canada-hit-hard
There is also a big COVID problem in “Irregular” Montreal’s meat plants:
https://globalnews.ca/news/6948106/maple-leaf-foods-montreal-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2XXM7ylcyyY0XMplztTlPtiHOx76HdcfALEm-ZuObcZG6louyowt9MY40
Like ours out here in Da Alburrrrdah, TFW’s. Probably where all those Roxham Road dudes and dudettes end up. KOF, KOFF, SNIF, KA -CHOOOOOO! I godda code, in 27 different dialects. That wouldn’t be the bilingue version of the UFCW, would it?