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by bigtunacan 3311 days ago
There is already a shortage of plasma and blood for people with real medical conditions that need treatment.

Consider in IVIG treatments that thousands of plasma donations are needed to make a SINGLE treatment dose and most people receiving these treatments have chronic diseases requiring ongoing treatment, so for just a single patient for one year you are talking about in excess of 10,000 donations needed.

But hey; lets just sell it all to the Peter Thiels of the world so we can keep them alive forever...