Grandfather's 'Miracle' COVID-19 Recovery

[icyfroth]

Let's have a survival story for a change:

Ten days ago, Kathleen Watson thought she'd spoken to her husband Ken for the final time.

The 70-year-old grandfather had lost consciousness and was struggling to breathe – placed in a coma as coronavirus ravaged his body.

He had been without medical care for 12 hours while quarantined in a Perth hotel.

"But today he's got his strong voice back and it was absolutely – it's a miracle," Mrs Watson told 9News.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/grandfathers-miracle-covid-19-recovery-after-falling-into...

He will have to return multiple negative test results before he's released into self-isolation with Mrs Watson, who has formed antibodies against the killer virus.

[joz*garage]

Interestingly, the levels of antibodies patients produced seemed to correlate with their ages: Middle-aged and elderly recovered patients had higher levels of antibodies. Nine of the 10 of the patients who did not develop detectable levels of coronavirus antibodies were 40 years old or younger.

Finding out more about how antibodies to the virus work will have major implications for both vaccine development and the potential for herd immunity.

https://www.businessinsider.com/study-recovered-coronavirus-patients-antibodies-2020-4?r=AU&IR=T

[joz*garage]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

facsinating

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You would find it so.

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You brought it up

[icyfroth]

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@joz*garage wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

facsinating

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You would find it so.

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You brought it up

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LOL!

I could think of all sorts of responses to that...

But I'll refrain....

[twyngwyn]

I came to Australia in 1968 and back then we had to have a TB vaccination before departure.....just throwing it out there....who knows?

[joz*garage]

My parents recieved that in 56

They're trialling that vaccination atm because of the effectiveness against similar viruses

[twyngwyn]

yep....hope it's the answer - fingers crossed

[*kazumi*]

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@springyzone wrote:

That is interesting that she has formed antibodies without actually having had it! Good news.

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Even more interesting is that as far as I know the test for antibodies has not been released yet.  Of course, it is possible that she had it mild and the  doctors are assuming she is immune now. 

There are reports of number of very old people, like over 100 getting well.

[*kazumi*]

Since this coronavirus is so new, scientists still don’t know whether people who recover from COVID-19 are immune to future infections of the virus. Doctors are finding antibodies in ill and recovered patients, and that indicates the development of immunity.

https://theconversation.com/what-does-recovered-from-coronavirus-mean-4-questions-answered-about-how...

[imastawka]

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@twyngwyn wrote:
I came to Australia in 1968 and back then we had to have a TB vaccination before departure.....just throwing it out there....who knows?

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Still dooo-win the accent then?

[icyfroth]

Ok, so shoot me if I'm oversimplifying this, but don't they take amounts of a given disease and inject it into ppl so they can build up immunity to it? Isn't that basically the vaccine?