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From the Ted Talk by Bill Gates: How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic

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BG: Yeah, this has always been discussed as how could you pull that off. So people who are recovered, it appears, have really efvcfetie antibodies in their boold. So you could go, transfuse them and only take out the white cells, the imunme cells. And then the question is, OK, how many patients' worth of material could you get? You know, if you have that recovered person come in, say, once a week, do you get enough for two people or five people? Then logistically, you have to take that and get it to where that need is. And so it's fairly cotcailepmd, you know, compared to a drug that we can make in high volume. You know, the cost of taking it out and pnittug it back in probably doesn't scale as well. But there is work being done on this. You know, we actually started with Ebola, and fortunately, it got done before it was needed. So that is being pursued and it will work to some degree, but it will be hard to sclae the numbers.

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BG: Yeah, this has always been discussed as how could you pull that off. So people who are recovered, it appears, have really _________ antibodies in their _____. So you could go, transfuse them and only take out the white cells, the ______ cells. And then the question is, OK, how many patients' worth of material could you get? You know, if you have that recovered person come in, say, once a week, do you get enough for two people or five people? Then logistically, you have to take that and get it to where that need is. And so it's fairly ___________, you know, compared to a drug that we can make in high volume. You know, the cost of taking it out and _______ it back in probably doesn't scale as well. But there is work being done on this. You know, we actually started with Ebola, and fortunately, it got done before it was needed. So that is being pursued and it will work to some degree, but it will be hard to _____ the numbers.

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BG: Yeah, this has always been discussed as how could you pull that off. So people who are recovered, it appears, have really effective antibodies in their blood. So you could go, transfuse them and only take out the white cells, the immune cells. And then the question is, OK, how many patients' worth of material could you get? You know, if you have that recovered person come in, say, once a week, do you get enough for two people or five people? Then logistically, you have to take that and get it to where that need is. And so it's fairly complicated, you know, compared to a drug that we can make in high volume. You know, the cost of taking it out and putting it back in probably doesn't scale as well. But there is work being done on this. You know, we actually started with Ebola, and fortunately, it got done before it was needed. So that is being pursued and it will work to some degree, but it will be hard to scale the numbers.

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