Gamma Globulin Deserves A Shot Vs COVID-19

Gamma globulin in the past was a temporary remedy for the treatment of many infectious diseases both viral and bacterial.

Gamma globulin injections are usually given in an attempt to temporarily boost a patient's immunity against disease. HGG also called immunoglobulin or immune globulin is a substance made from human plasma and contains antibodies that protect the body against disease.

Researchers in the early 1950s investigated whether the use of human immunoglobulin could protect individuals from polio. Gamma globulin was tested in a first of a kind set of double-blind trials in 1952 prior to the Salk polio vaccine approved in 1955. The trials showed success.

Polio caused paralysis of the limbs requiring mechanical braces and also respiratory muscle failure requiring an iron lung or death. An Iron lung is a machine that predated the modern respirator and was frequently used in hospitals to allow patients with respiratory failure to breathe. COVID 19 in extreme cases requires a ventilator.

Immunoglobulin is an antibody preparation made from blood pooled from many people who most likely have antibodies to common infections and injected into a person who had been exposed to almost any type disease.

Gamma globulin is expensive to produce and gave only temporary protection from 6 to 22 days and in the 1950s physicians relied on gamma globulin for protection against measles, hepatitis, and other diseases for which there were no vaccines. Every time there is a new epidemic a new product needs to be produced a very expensive undertaking.

The other problem with gamma globulin is there is not enough blood plasma available as in the 1950s it took one pint of blood to equal protection for one shot to protect against polio for one season. That was seventy years ago much has changed in the field of medicine since then.

Americans today are confronted with the constant threat of COVID 19 outbreaks just like the polio outbreaks prior to 1955.

Note # In the 1940s quarantines were issued by public officials for only the most vulnerable children and pregnant women due to the polio epidemic.
Today the majority of people at risk are over 60 or in bad health are at risk but our officials have shut down the entire country?

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