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Convalescent plasma shows no improvement in survival and other important measures and is not recommended for patients with Covid-19, according to a study released on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO). ....
Monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma. we need to know if that spells out to a really high degree of transmissibility and whether or not when it does infect someone, whether it causes severe disease and those things we re going to know, joy, in about a couple of weeks, a week and a half, two weeks, at the most three weeks. we have a great deal of cooperation from the south african colleagues, scientists and public health officials that are very transparent with us and sharing information with us. you know, the south african president complained and south africans are getting pretty offended they re being kind of targeted when all they did was discover it. it s like the spanish flu being the spanish flu because they admitted it was there. south africa actually did a good thing by letting us know this variant is here and discovering it. i wonder if trying to bar travel from a country like south africa even works. i ve been kind of my team is ....
As you said the omicron variant is cause for concern, not cause for panic. why not? well, because we don t have enough information to be talking about dire situations. there are some concerning aspects about what the molecular profile of the virus is and what s going on in southern africa, but we really need to have filling in the gaps, for example, how transmissible will it be and what is the level of transmissibility. importantly, will it evade the protection, for example, of monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma or the antibodies induced by vaccination. it likely will have an impact on that. if you look at the profile of the mutations, the question is how much of an impact would it have on protection induced by vaccination. the only way to know that is to do what we re doing, namely, get ....
Jacqui. reporter: hey, mollie. there s quick reaction from the white house in announcing new travel restrictions but seemingly a lot less urgency in imposing them, leaving an entire weekend until they take effect. the president said that was the advice of his medical team. top white house doctor, anthony fauci, explains that a travel ban will never completely prevent the virus from reaching the country. the hope is that it might delay the process so the country may be better prepared with resources to handle it. the mutations strongly suggest it would be more transmissible and might evade some of the protection of monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma. reporter: reaction to the travel restrictions has been mixed. markets are showing concern over another vair a want and whether variant and whether it might hit businesses hard, questioning whether travel and dining out could be impacted. there is concern it could cause more inflation and more supply chain issues. ....
Transmissible and it might invade some of the protection of monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma and even antibodies induced by vaccines. raymond: given that there is no extensive testing on this variant and the south african say it presents only mild symptoms, what is dr. fauci talking about? tyrus: i establish yesterday i m not a rocket surgeon. i do a lot of reading and research and whatnot and i found looking historically with other different type of variant. which is typical of the flu mutating variant and they typically tend to be less serious than the original. it just goes back pushing the worst case scenario. i think with messaging you could look at that one way or another. the part that is disturbing he is no longer the science guy, just a fax guy he had to take time out with senator cruz in ....