From Twitter this morning
It strikes me as a little strange?
I've mentioned before, I know someone with ME who donated a kidney to her son and now he has ME.
In the short window between the AIDS crisis breaking and getting sick myself in 1984 I was regularly donating blood due to the great need that flowed from AIDS and the AIDS-related hysteria reducing donations.
That ended when I came down with CFS. The greatest fear I've had over all these years if that I might cause someone else to contract this horrible illness. I'm blessed in not having done that to the best of my knowledge.
I would never donate organs without greater assurances it was safe, despite organ donations being something I'd do in a heartbeat were I a healthy person.
Bill
I was originally diagnosed with a form of migraine, so because of my frequent bouts of ill health and because blood donation was seen as a great good in my family, I went regularly. Like you I worry that I passed it on.
We will never know but our good intentions only went wrong because of complacency and neglect by the medical community. They knew by 1955 that there was an epidemic disease called ME and they could have invested time and money to getting to the bottom of it then. instead they comforted themselves with mass hysteria by women and deluded doctors, so here we are.
If there is an ongoing aspect to Long covid has there already been blood donations from patients?
None of this has been addressed.
If they are severely ill plasma may not help:I see desperate people, family members of young people with rapidly deteriorating condition, ask people with long covid to donate blood plasma, so more of it would be available for treating covid.
For what it's worth I've asked the UK blood transfusion service (on a couple of occasions) what their policy is on blood donations from those experiencing so-called 'Long covid' and, on both occasions, I've not received a definitive answer. Both times I've been told to send their Twitter account a Direct Message and the matter would be discussed.
Do they have a policy on Long covid donations? Some groups are banned (ME is one) so, given that there are arguable similarities between the two, what's their guidance or ruling? An ongoing viral infection has been mentioned over the years in both cases so why can't they be more public in their stance?
If there is an ongoing aspect to Long covid has there already been blood donations from patients?
None of this has been addressed.
Given the symptomatic similarities, and that people with ME aren't allowed to donate blood, is it entirely ethical, or sensible, to inject people with blood products derived from people with long covid?
Just because a few treatments have historically been made this way, as attempts at a quick fix?
This is not correct. seeThere is confusion about whether ME is banned from giving blood.
Basically, you are not allowed to give blood if you are unwell. There is only a question of giving blood with ME if you are recovered but you have to be really sure you are not just in a remission before you consider donating.