If you told me 5 years ago...
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That I would be attending (virtually) the Global Plasma Summit, put on by the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association I would have thought you were insane.
Having said that, lots of interesting talks about Covid therapies.
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Yeah, that was talked about.
Its a problem, the fractionation process literally takes months, so we're only jus beginning to feel the impact.
And that's before any new demand for plasma from emerging Covid treatments.
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I’m on the board of a rare disease foundation that relies heavily on plasma-based therapies.
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@Jolly said in If you told me 5 years ago...:
On a side note, we are having a devil of a time getting blood and blood products because of COVID.
It is interesting. The US is very strict on who can donate blood. For example, I am unable to donate in the US because I have been in Thailand within the past 1 year.
Okay, I can understand that, but people donate blood in Thailand all the time LOL
In the US, I believe that they are concerned about malaria. I would think that Thailand would have some sort of screening for that? Hmmm
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It is. The mutation causes a protein made in the liver to be misfolded and as a result unable to enter the bloodstream.
The treatment is to take that protein from donor plasma and infuse it into the blood directly.
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@taiwan_girl said in If you told me 5 years ago...:
@Jolly said in If you told me 5 years ago...:
On a side note, we are having a devil of a time getting blood and blood products because of COVID.
It is interesting. The US is very strict on who can donate blood. For example, I am unable to donate in the US because I have been in Thailand within the past 1 year.
Okay, I can understand that, but people donate blood in Thailand all the time LOL
In the US, I believe that they are concerned about malaria. I would think that Thailand would have some sort of screening for that? Hmmm