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Çağatay Yiğit Şahin Feb 21

NewScientist: "Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments"

This is both so logical and yet absurdly like a science fiction story ...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/

#Science #Health

Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

New Scientist

Deborah Pickett Feb 20

@Natasha_Jay If we run out of paediatricians we can move onto kindergarten teachers.

@futzle @Natasha_Jay Please let's not run out of pediatricians

@futzle @Natasha_Jay (i definitely owe my life to them, for the vaccines alone)

@futzle @Natasha_Jay kindergarten teachers must be a super race, from the viewpoint of immune systems.

@bit101 @futzle @Natasha_Jay
Creche attendants, childrens' librarians, elementary school nurses.

B's wild, wild world 🌱🐛🎼Feb 21

@quoidian @bit101 @futzle @Natasha_Jay
Let's not forget childcare providers in this mix! I cannot count the number of ailments I contracted in the first few years on the job. Once we moved to another state (prior military family) I'd get that region's illnesses the first year and be fine again for the rest of the tour. Did that for 20 years 😅

@BsCreativeLife @bit101 @futzle @Natasha_Jay
Anyone in frequent contact with sprogs and rugrats, and remains healthy, is a candidate.

ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Feb 21

@bit101 @Natasha_Jay
Not at all. A large number of teachers get post-viral conditions similar to Long Covid. Some recover eventually. Some, like me, never teach again.
#mecfs #teachers

@anne_twain ugh... sorry to hear that.

@[email protected] has moved.Feb 21

@futzle And daycare workers @Natasha_Jay

@feisty_lemming @futzle @Natasha_Jay I think it only makes sense to hunt everyone that work with children, suck them dry of their blood and create pediatrician farming facilities. For the betterment of human beings.

Patrick Hadfield Feb 20

@Natasha_Jay I've always thought teachers must have amazing antibodies, too!

@patrickhadfield Actually, we do. However, the response seems to be local. When you transfer to another school, it starts all over again.

@Natasha_Jay I gotta say though, anything "harvested from the blood of" <type of human> gets me nervous.

Plan A to Y Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay this is almost exactly a joke from an SMBC comic too. Life imitating art I suppose
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson

@Plan_A_to_Y @Natasha_Jay SMBC and IRL have a relationship that would make most polycules blush and most psychiatrists publish. they can't stay apart for long.

3Jane Tessier Ashpool Feb 21

@Plan_A_to_Y @Natasha_Jay I had not read that one before- love it!

@Natasha_Jay modern-day milk-maids

The Turtle Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay all the sense in the world! Small children are fucking disease vectors. Being around sick ones all the time probably boosts their antibodies through the roof!

Tristin Alexander S.Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay , Being exposed to more strains gives them more chances to target components preserved between different strains of the virus.

cognitively accessible math Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay I've often figured there are serious downsides to the anonymity of blood sources.
I mean, my blood might help people more than others' (yea, I'm a teacher-type and ... I don't get sick).

@iveyline Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay How interesting.

@Natasha_Jay @ozzelot Oh wow :))))

@Natasha_Jay They should try preschool teachers. I’ve never been sick more often than when my boyfriend was working as a preschool teacher.

buherator Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay Next up: kindergarten teachers

E. C. Bigribs Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay This feels like that nutty Thomas Jefferson quote. Tree of liberty something something blood of pediatricians.

@eedly @Natasha_Jay my kids day care center used to has what we called „disease of the week“ (DOTW) notices on the door as you left , just above the door as you left. Templated. „you might have bee exposed to <insert disease>. We have an outbreak at the daycare center. Symptoms include …“. you’d go back to car, wipe hands and search for symptoms of fifth diseases or hand foot and mouth. etc.

Stefan Eissing Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay From paediatricians that survived the job.😌

„So sad, we have to kill her for her blood now after she survived the kids and their mothers for years…“
„She knew the risks!“

salguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupper Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay
This'll have anti-vaxxers trapped in a perennial mental tug-of-war between confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.

Captain Button Feb 21

I saw that TV show!

"This gives Ben immunity to every known disease and an estimated lifespan five to ten times that of other humans, making him, in the doctor's words, "virtually immortal". The billionaire decides that he has to control Richards' life so he can access his life-saving blood."

"When Richards rejects all of Braddock's offers to remain with him, the billionaire has him imprisoned, but he ultimately escapes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(1970_TV_series)

The Immortal (1970 TV series) - Wikipedia

Kerplunk Feb 21

NewScientist: "Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians

A team including Hui Zhai at the Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University screened the blood of 10 paediatricians who had been working at the hospital for over a decade. From this, the researchers discovered 56 potent antibodies against RSV from the paediatricians’ immune cells.

Chinese Medicine !!!

Thinking of people not maximum profits.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/

Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

New Scientist

gkrnours Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay I wonder yhis also affect hospital worker, who get much better immune system from being in the same room as sick patient everyday, and don't understand that it's not healthy for visitor who only come in contact once in a while. So they don't understand whybthe hospital should invest in better ventilation and worker use mask

Wayward Sun (yak shaver extraordinaire)Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay ... blood of surviving paediatricians 😃

So yes, with some deft Darwinian filtering, there may be something useful to harvest.

(surviving as in, alive and still practicing; how many paediatricians wash out of the profession due to permanent sniffles?! 🤷)

Leto Fregar Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay OK, the term "harvested from the blood of" sounded a few alarm bells. However, after reading the article, it is more "copied from", as the actual antibodies were artificially produced.
Makes it a lot more ethical and would allow for mass application...

Martin Seeger Feb 21

@Natasha_Jay Knowing our current economic system, this may generate sone wrong incentives 😱

myrmepropagandist Feb 23

As a teacher I'm looking around nervously at this one.

(It's well known that new teachers get sick all the time, part of it is stress, but also they just don't have the immune system and paranoid hand washing habits yet. )

Everyday.Human Derek Feb 23

@Natasha_Jay @BernieDoesIt

Umm…Is new scientist a reputable source? I’m asking because of the socials listed from the authors and it’s x and linked-in. I don’t know anything about the magizine; authors or publishers.

Thanks Natasha

Bernie Luckily Does It Feb 23

@EVDHmn @Natasha_Jay Yeah, they're reputable. I've heard of them before. They do good work.

Everyday.Human Derek Feb 24

@BernieDoesIt @Natasha_Jay
I have too, the amount of Bullshit lately that I see or things taken out of context.

For instance the better you get at picking up on Bullshit your false positives Go up.

I may have turned a bit 🤔skeptical of anything lately that is mainstream, mostly because it’s owned or published or touched by slaves who are owned or are Rich.

Like I may respect a Story, for 1.its Creative expression or

2.I want to know how many ways they measured the accuracy.