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Warpy

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2. In the early days of the disease, it was all they had to go on

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 05:32 PM

Apr 2021

but once patients were ill enough to be in the hospital, too much damage had been done to them to make the treatment particularly effective. The virus did clear, but the damage persisted and there was little effect of survivability.

Convalescent plasma has been well known to mitigate disease, but it has to be given early, before the targeted body system(s) have been too badly damaged.

The whole mess was compounded by the fact that Dumdum considered himself to be the only expert worth listening to.

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And then there's this intrepidity Apr 2021 #1

In the early days of the disease, it was all they had to go on Warpy Apr 2021 #2