/sigh again faggots?
This baby has brain, kidney and liver damage (at least).
It cannot breathe without machines, it cannot swallow without machines, it's heart cannot beat without machines. It has no bowel movement, again, machines.
It cannot open its eyes and has no motor functions.
It cannot REPAIR DAMAGED DNA. It cannot CREATE NEW DNA. It's cells cannot divide.
You could cut it's head off and it would be the same, machines manipulating a limp, lifeless body.
The media outlets are copy-pasting the first paragraph of Wikipedia rather than interviewing medical professionals. They're also describing problems with the TK2 gene, not RRM2B defects which is what Charlie has.
There is NO TREATMENT ON EARTH that can possibly fix any of this. The best they could do is take a sample of his DNA, analyse it, test a new drug on mice, and then test on humans.
Instead Dr Shekelstein has said he has a "treatment", that is UNTESTED, hasn't even been tried on mice. Even he admits it won't change a bloody thing.
The only thing about this case is Americans wanting to take millions in payments, milk this baby for all the press it's worth, and set a precedent to use human babies as guinea pigs for untested "treatments". Enjoy big pharma.
The best thing for the kid is letting it die with dignity, it literally has no chance. You cannot repair this level of genetic damage, and even if you could, what are you going to do about the brain, liver and kidney damage?
Stop PR signalling, Americans. This has nothing to do with healthcare.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK195854/
ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/rrm2b-related-mitochondrial-dna-depletion-syndrome-encephalomyopathic-form-with-renal-tubulopathy#genes
(BTW we DO have private health care here too. We just don't test on babies for the laugh..)