FDA Approves Clinical Trials to Use Antibodies from Recovered Patients

giving the [good] health and history i don't see any serious risk for me from the virus, and considering that it is hardly a choice - like many i'll most probably get it in time anyway as i don't believe it can be contained until herd immunity is achieved (and many people will die in the meantime until some big breakthrough(s) is achieved like mass availability of the antibody plasma for example) - so personally it is just a matter of getting it earlier or later, getting it in controlled manner/scheduled/prepared/etc. vs. at random time, etc. Some selfish factors may play a role too like having guaranteed medical attention in the low probable case of the things going wrong for example.

In a young person with no co-morbid conditions, the risk is not 2%, it's 0.1% -- at most, and we're all going to get it. #flattenthecurve is not about containment, it's about slowing the spread so that hospital capacity to care for the small fraction who need it can be ramped to match. Sooner or later some 270 million Americans will have had it, and we'll develop herd immunity. It'll most likely end up a seasonal virus like the flu.

With the high R0 and the fact so many people end up with no symptoms, negligible symptoms or mild flu-like symptoms, it can't really be stopped.

I'd volunteer. Not that I think we should, though.

If it'd save a bunch of lives, I'd volunteer if someone were hired to help my wife with the kids (along with a generous insurance package and wage) and if it were early in the pandemic where there's still plenty of healthcare system capacity.

People volunteer to donate organs despite a higher likelihood of harm than getting COVID-19 if you are 18-24 without any comorbidities.

If this would be an effective solution people would volunteer for sure.

The UK had 750,000 people signing up to volunteer for the NHS which could expose them to getting infected in the midst of the epidemic without guarantee of even getting admitted to a hospital if the situation would continue to escalate.

If you think you won’t get 1000’s of volunteers for a relatively low risk infection that would put you under 24/7 VIP medical observation and would likely get you first access to any medical assistance required if things would turn to the worse you clearly don’t understand people well enough.

And this is without the potential financial and societal benefits those people would directly and indirectly receive.

People are doing a lot more dangerous things for a lot less of a pay out in a daily basis.

> Even some small percentage of young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19.

Some small percentage of young people are dying from the flu too, it's unfortunate, and it happens. We need to keep our eyes focused on the statistics not the anecdotes.

Every disease is potentially fatal. We definitely shouldn't intentionally infect anyone. It's just not necessary.

People volunteer to be locked in facilities for 30+ days to be injected with potentially fatal new and poorly understood drugs all the time in exchange for a few thousand dollars.

Even if its safer to be in that group than not?

Maybe that tells us that particular version of ethics has flaws?

Either way, people can always infect themselves under most ethics.

I once heard that an acquaintance had participated in a study for which he was injected with a flu virus. I never verified this however.

What's the difference to being a mercenary? People rent their body to fight an opponent, just not a human one.

Do you have a source that young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19? Just curious.

The best I have is the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) which did a study on all 2003 dead (back when that was the number). Only 5 have been under the age of 40 and all of them had medical preconditions.

There are young and healthy people that show heavy symptoms and even need ventilation, but they all seem to survive.

>I don't think you can ethically intentionally infect people, even volunteers, with a potentially fatal disease.

yet, it is somehow ethical to send young healthy people to kill and die in the meaningless wars driven by corporation profits. I think your ethics has extremely serious ethical flaws.