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California biopharmaceutical company claims coronavirus antibody breakthrough

By Perry Chiaramonte | Fox News

Growing debate over how to use COVID-19 antibody testing data
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EXCLUSIVE — A California-based biopharmaceutical company claims to have discovered an antibody that could shield the human body from the coronavirus and flush it out of a person’s system within four days, Fox News has exclusively learned.
Later Friday, Sorrento Therapeutics will announce their discovery of the STI-1499 antibody, which the San Diego company said can provide "100% inhibition" of COVID-19, adding that a treatment could be available months before a vaccine hits the market.
"We want to emphasize there is a cure. There is a solution that works 100 percent," Dr. Henry Ji, founder and CEO of Sorrento Therapeutics, told Fox News. "If we have the neutralizing antibody in your body, you don't need the social distancing. You can open up a society without fear."

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"This puts its arms around the virus. It wraps around the virus and moves them out of the body."
— Dr. Henry Ji, CEO and founder, Sorrento Therapeutics
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The health care and pharmaceutical industries have been scrambling to develop viable vaccines and antibody treatments as the number of COVID-19-related deaths is expected to hit 100,000 by June 1.
Many medical researchers are scrambling to find antibodies, optimistic that they could provide a remedy or preventative care in less time than it would take to develop a vaccine. Antibody treatments have been used for the past 100 years as a means to stave off infections, but their effectiveness has had mixed results. Finding a successful antibody or convalescent plasma treatment for COVID-19 could present challenges.

"Doctors are taking blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and infusing it into those who are critically ill. The plasma is laden with antibodies, and the approach shows some promise," former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. "The constraint: There isn’t enough plasma from recovered patients to go around."
Some medical experts believe that while antibody research shows promise, there are concerns for how long the effects may last in fighting the virus in an infected patient.
“Antibodies, in general, have been very effective at bringing virus [levels] down if you’ve had a high burden of infection,” Phyllis Kanki, a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said in a recent interview. “There are limitations to how much you can give and for how long.”
 
EXCLUSIVE: New York Admits Knowingly Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths After Quietly Changing Reporting Rules
ALBANY, NY - MAY 01: New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during his daily press briefing on May 1, 2020 in Albany, New York. Cuomo stated that New York will eliminate deductibles for mental health services for frontline workers. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)

ANDREW KERRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
May 15, 20202:46 PM ET







  • The New York State Department of Health acknowledged that its recent reporting does not fully reflect the known carnage coronavirus has caused among nursing home and adult care residents.
  • The revelation comes as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under fire for his policies regarding nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  • New York is the only state with large coronavirus outbreaks among its long-term care facilities that doesn’t count residents who died at a hospital.
  • New York quietly changed the way it reports long-term care fatalities around April 28.
 
NCSNOW said:
More people died in NY nursing homes from corona virus than the entire state of Florida
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good for you, how many brownie points do you want? There are more overall cases in NY, it was one of the first states outside of Washington to be affected. Mistakes were made.
 
The way I'm reading and understanding the Colorado data is that the 1150 number still stands but that they are now reporting 2 different totals. One for "covid related" and "direct covid"

So there are 1150 deaths still?
 
weatherfide said:
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Antibody tests in Washington state indicate the coronavirus was in the U.S. much earlier than thought

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...starting to get my long awaited vindication...I won’t hold my breath on seeing your apologies in this thread. Shut downs were useless for mitigation, only effective for trashing the economy.
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If the Ohio report was correct and they were having cases in early to mid January and 80+% of CV cases in this area are traced backed to NY, then it's pretty much obvious that NYC was seeing community spread in mid to late December a least.
 
NC reporting 853 cases on the daily update, smashing the one day maximum of 691 two days ago. I imagine the Wilkesboro hotspot is one of the major contributors. The other metrics such as hospitalizations seem to be doing ok for now.
 
It’s 2020. How did we not know beforehand to do region by region shutdown? Wilkes residents pissed they had to stay at home when Charlotte was epicenter. Now elsewhere is pissed with restrictions because Wilkesboro is epicenter. Will the news ever carry this story? Nope. Will we learn before next disaster? Doubtful.
 
BirdManDoomW said:
It’s 2020. How did we not know beforehand to do region by region shutdown? Wilkes residents pissed they had to stay at home when Charlotte was epicenter. Now elsewhere is pissed with restrictions because Wilkesboro is epicenter. Will the news ever carry this story? Nope. Will we learn before next disaster? Doubtful.
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Somebody from your county would have gone to Charlotte and brought it back earlier if we had not been on lockdown.
 
packfan98 said:
NC reporting 853 cases on the daily update, smashing the one day maximum of 691 two days ago. I imagine the Wilkesboro hotspot is one of the major contributors. The other metrics such as hospitalizations seem to be doing ok for now.
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Updated 14 day moving avg. At this point, not sure we can stop what's coming...assuming Cooper moves to phase 2.

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GA and SC have been trending down but not NC. Below is SC. I'm baffled on why NC is still trending solidly up but GA/SC are trending solidly down.

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And that’s a wrap. Wilkes continues past 410+ cases and State Mountain State Park is shutdown as of today until further notice. Additional parks and outdoor areas will be closing too.
 
NC has reported lots of tests the last few days, so keep that in mind. Things aren’t necessarily getting worse. Hospitalizations remind stead around 450-550, as they have the last several weeks.

I am a bit concerned that phase 2 could be delayed because of developments like this Wilkes County outbreak, though. We’ll see...
 
Law enforcement backup requested at Stone Mountain State Park as citizens (lots of out of state tags) are upset.
 
KyloG said:
Updated 14 day moving avg. At this point, not sure we can stop what's coming...assuming Cooper moves to phase 2.

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GA and SC have been trending down but not NC. Below is SC. I'm baffled on why NC is still trending solidly up but GA/SC are trending solidly down.

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NC has recently increased testing by quite a bit. Have SC and GA increased or decreased their testing?
 
Shaggy said:
NC has recently increased testing by quite a bit. Have SC and GA increased or decreased their testing?
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Good question, not sure. NC has definitely increased quite a bit.
 
Shaggy said:
NC has recently increased testing by quite a bit. Have SC and GA increased or decreased their testing?
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Georgia has finally been testing quite a bit lately. The complaint that people have had has been with the counts being messed up, but I went to my hairdresser recently and she gave a perfect example of at least somewhat of a "c'mon man"...

I don't remember when this was, as I've mainly watched hospital and local numbers, but recently, Georgia had added 1000 positive tests, there were people going "omg, oh no" (things like that)….

That was out of 20000 tests. So 1 out of 20 tests were positive.

Outside of Hall County, which has their own issues contributing to why (I suppose you could say Hall County is Georgia's version of Wilkes and that would explain a good bit of it, they have chicken plants up there), it's been relatively calm.
 
weatherfide said:
hotair.com

Antibody tests in Washington state indicate the coronavirus was in the U.S. much earlier than thought

hotair.com hotair.com

...starting to get my long awaited vindication...I won’t hold my breath on seeing your apologies in this thread. Shut downs were useless for mitigation, only effective for trashing the economy.
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Science says not so fast. Still unanswered questions but those 2 cases in Washington are explained in this link. The timeline still does not fit with December spread in the USA.

www.yahoo.com

When Did Coronavirus Arrive in the U.S.? Here's a Review of the Evidence.

SEATTLE -- In a county north of Seattle, two people who came down with respiratory illnesses in December now have antibodies for the coronavirus. In Florida, a public health official who got sick in January believes he had COVID-19.And in California, a surprising discovery that an early-February...
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Shaggy said:
NC has recently increased testing by quite a bit. Have SC and GA increased or decreased their testing?
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Our testing has gone up a lot which is great news and gives more credence to the downturn. I sure wish that could make more headlines but shock and despair rules.
 
Poimen said:
I just had dinner at Captain George’s and they are limiting to 50 percent occupancy. The restaurant across the street from the hotel was completely packed from what I can tell. No idea what the rules are.
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This thing is going to play out one way or another; one extreme or another ... either a major resurgence or covid-havoc for all practical purposes is gone ...
 
Went to the closest Target to me earlier this afternoon. They were doing major restrictions on how many could go in last week according to my parents, this week while they had 2 people outside watching us go in and counting (seemingly), it didn't seem all that restricted at all. Seemed as if there was a lot of people in the Target. We tried to keep some distance, but ultimately there was a couple moments where we couldn't.

Their meat section was wiped out (we weren't going for it though, we were going to pick up an answering machine, a couple food products, and at least trying for shoes for me, but they didn't have much) and our social distancing moment was the check out deal. Instead of going directly to check out, we had to form a long line for that.

Here's somewhat of a biggie though haha. Earlier today I looked up a hotel near where family in NW GA stay at and Google didn't say it was temporarily closed. I notified my parents about that and I suppose that was their go ahead to plan to go. So, I get to travel next weekend as long as that hotel is indeed open. For a change they really have the itch to get out and travel.
 
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412 and now ordered to shut up. County officials said Tyson told them the results testing by Matrix, but also said they are prohibited from sharing it with the media or public under a directive from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Tyson hired Matrix to do the testing. Statute cited

Sarah Lewis Peel, DHHS communications manager, declined to provide this information then and said doing so would violate the N.C. Reportable Disease Confidentiality statute.

Peel stated then by email, “The reason we do not report individual facility information is because providing specific health information, like small numbers of positive test results for a reportable disease in combination with the geographic location at the facility level, makes the protected health information of the individuals served by that facility identifiable. The N.C. Reportable Disease Confidentiality statute (G.S. 130A-143) outlines this.” This statute says that “all information and records, whether publicly or privately maintained, that identify a person who has AIDS virus infection or who has or may have a disease or condition required to be reported pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall be strictly confidential.”

Regardless, it soon was apparent that the Wilkes outbreak was at the Tyson complex in Wilkesboro and county officials have mentioned Tyson by name in referring to the outbreak. DHHS officials have told the Wilkes Journal-Patriot that they can’t disclose numbers of people testing positive for CLOVID-19 in meat processing plant outbreaks due to G.S. 130A-143.

Wilkes Health Department Director Rachel Willard has said she can’t release the number of positive cases among those tested at the Tyson in Wilkesboro by Matrix due to the DHHS policy. Change in DHHS policy?

After being pressured by several newspapers, other media outlets and advocacy groups, DHHS reversed a policy of not publicly announcing details of nursing homes and other group living facilities with COVID-19 outbreaks. The agency began releasing the names of these facilities and numbers of confirmed COVID-19 at each in late April.

DHHS had refused to make this information public before then, citing the N.C. Reportable Disease Confidentiality statute as the basis for this position.
 
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