If diagnosed with covid this CAVE MAN--60s, with high blood pressure--would rather get his first shot of leronlimab ASAP. Without waiting around for a severity test. Not only for myself but to minimize any chance of passing the disease to others. Not only family and friends but medical workers and receptionists and anyone else who might inadvertently cross paths with my breath.
Sure, in an optimized world, the infrastructure would be in place for rapid test turnaround. How long will it take to get the assay in every hospital? How long will it take to get a sample, tag it, process the test, document it, get it back to the doctor, write up a prescription, deliver the shot? Isn't part of the appeal of LL is that it will keep people away from the hospital? Isn't there a contradiction there, like with BamMab and the REGN cocktail--you have to go to the hospital to stay out of the hospital?
I don't know, perhaps the labwork will be done offsite, at regional labs. Are we talking about a turnaround time of a day? Two? Longer I'm sure if the pandemic is surging. Or there is a snowstorm. Or a few key lab technicians get sick...
There's the optimized world, and the cave man world. South Korea, Switzerland, Israel, and Taiwan probably have the technical and social wherewithal to develop and rollout the infrastructure for effective use of a covid assay. In time for this pandemic. If there are enough assays (and leronlimab) available. Japan? Germany? Costa Rica? New Zealand? The Nordic countries? Argentina or Chile? After the testing fiasco and the slow vaccine rollout and the limited success in developing therapeutics, would you add the US to that list?
What's that saying... "The perfect is the enemy of the good"? The point is there is an astonisinghly easy and predictive protocol for the effective use of
Sure, in an optimized world, the infrastructure would be in place for rapid test turnaround. How long will it take to get the assay in every hospital? How long will it take to get a sample, tag it, process the test, document it, get it back to the doctor, write up a prescription, deliver the shot? Isn't part of the appeal of LL is that it will keep people away from the hospital? Isn't there a contradiction there, like with BamMab and the REGN cocktail--you have to go to the hospital to stay out of the hospital?
I don't know, perhaps the labwork will be done offsite, at regional labs. Are we talking about a turnaround time of a day? Two? Longer I'm sure if the pandemic is surging. Or there is a snowstorm. Or a few key lab technicians get sick...
There's the optimized world, and the cave man world. South Korea, Switzerland, Israel, and Taiwan probably have the technical and social wherewithal to develop and rollout the infrastructure for effective use of a covid assay. In time for this pandemic. If there are enough assays (and leronlimab) available. Japan? Germany? Costa Rica? New Zealand? The Nordic countries? Argentina or Chile? After the testing fiasco and the slow vaccine rollout and the limited success in developing therapeutics, would you add the US to that list?
What's that saying... "The perfect is the enemy of the good"? The point is there is an astonisinghly easy and predictive protocol for the effective use of
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