The baby has very little blood volume, it is true. Never done an autologous transfusion on an infant -- you could hardly take any blood and it is hard to deal with tiny amounts in a banking situation. But in this case there is a further complication: it takes a fair amount of blood to prime the heart/lung machine irrespective o…
The baby has very little blood volume, it is true. Never done an autologous transfusion on an infant -- you could hardly take any blood and it is hard to deal with tiny amounts in a banking situation. But in this case there is a further complication: it takes a fair amount of blood to prime the heart/lung machine irrespective of the size of the patient.
On the other issue, there have been a few studies on the persistence of spike protein but they are still all over the map in terms of what you can take from them. Remember that spikes are made both by the virus and the spikeshot, so that further complicates things.
As opposed to HIV and similar viruses, I am not aware of any published reports of covid being transmitted through blood. This does not mean it has not been -- whatever is in the blood has a chance of getting to the recipient. I am certain that large numbers of donors have had other coronaviruses in proximity to their donations and some of those would have certainly moved on to the recipient -- we do not test for every last virus or bacterium or whatever. This is why blood transfusion is one of those things one does not do unless it is really, really needed.
But most patients do OK with their transfusions -- usually if you are being transfused you have far larger issues with which to deal and having tissue oxygenation is more important than the other potential transfusion issues. We monitor each transfusion to see if we are seeing effects from covid and everything else. There is clearly an under-study of spikeshot effects because of the politics, but that will come out (if any) as the suppression of that whole area falls away bit by bit I expect.
I think you highlighted the problem very well. There is so little information available because it's an unprecedented sitiuation ... mRNA/DNA 'vaccines' have never been used before and we don't know very well what the spike is doing to either the blood donors themselves or to their blood donations. So perhaps in the circumstances a "safety first" policy would be best until more data is available, and use unvaccinated blood (if requested) because it MIGHT be safer, not because it definitely IS.
Patrick,
The baby has very little blood volume, it is true. Never done an autologous transfusion on an infant -- you could hardly take any blood and it is hard to deal with tiny amounts in a banking situation. But in this case there is a further complication: it takes a fair amount of blood to prime the heart/lung machine irrespective of the size of the patient.
On the other issue, there have been a few studies on the persistence of spike protein but they are still all over the map in terms of what you can take from them. Remember that spikes are made both by the virus and the spikeshot, so that further complicates things.
As opposed to HIV and similar viruses, I am not aware of any published reports of covid being transmitted through blood. This does not mean it has not been -- whatever is in the blood has a chance of getting to the recipient. I am certain that large numbers of donors have had other coronaviruses in proximity to their donations and some of those would have certainly moved on to the recipient -- we do not test for every last virus or bacterium or whatever. This is why blood transfusion is one of those things one does not do unless it is really, really needed.
But most patients do OK with their transfusions -- usually if you are being transfused you have far larger issues with which to deal and having tissue oxygenation is more important than the other potential transfusion issues. We monitor each transfusion to see if we are seeing effects from covid and everything else. There is clearly an under-study of spikeshot effects because of the politics, but that will come out (if any) as the suppression of that whole area falls away bit by bit I expect.
I think you highlighted the problem very well. There is so little information available because it's an unprecedented sitiuation ... mRNA/DNA 'vaccines' have never been used before and we don't know very well what the spike is doing to either the blood donors themselves or to their blood donations. So perhaps in the circumstances a "safety first" policy would be best until more data is available, and use unvaccinated blood (if requested) because it MIGHT be safer, not because it definitely IS.