Plasma therapy not effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines on Covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Plasma therapy not effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines on Covid-19

India Today  

Plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said. In the letter, which was also marked to ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, public health professionals alleged that the current guidelines on plasma therapy are not based on existing evidence and pointed out some very early evidence that indicates a possible association between emergence of variants with “lower susceptibility to neutralising antibodies in immunosuppressed" people given plasma therapy. "We are writing to you as concerned clinicians, public health professionals and scientists from India about the irrational and non-scientific use of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 in the country. The health professionals added that the PlasmAr trial in Argentina concluded that there is no significant difference in “clinical status or overall mortality between patients treated with convalescent plasma and those who received placebo”.

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FDA revokes authorization for key anti-COVID drug, a blow for vulnerable Americans
1 year, 10 months ago

FDA revokes authorization for key anti-COVID drug, a blow for vulnerable Americans

LA Times  

A two-shot dose of Evusheld at a University of Washington Medicine clinic in Seattle. For her patients, she said, “it was kind of like being told the seat belts in your car won’t work anymore, and we’re not going to be able to replace them with anything.” In recent months, nine new subvariants of the dominant Omicron strain have proven …

What you should know about treating Covid-19
3 years ago

What you should know about treating Covid-19

Live Mint  

Within a few weeks, the US could have access to the first antiviral pills to treat Covid-19, either from Pfizer Inc. or Merck & Co. and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP. Doctors say an initial step is to monitor symptoms to determine whether infected people could be considered at low or high risk for developing severe disease. Patients who don’t respond …

Curing with Blood: the Rise and Fall of Covid Convalescent Plasma Therapy
3 years, 2 months ago

Curing with Blood: the Rise and Fall of Covid Convalescent Plasma Therapy

News 18  

Early in the pandemic, scientists thought convalescent plasma might be a way to treat COVID-19. But growing evidence, including an international study published this week, shows convalescent plasma does not save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19. year more than 100 clinical trials had been conducted with convalescent plasma in people with COVID-19; about one-third of these studies had …

Use of plasma therapy for Covid may cause adverse events: Study
3 years, 3 months ago

Use of plasma therapy for Covid may cause adverse events: Study

Hindustan Times  

Even with doubtful efficacy, antibody-rich plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients continued to be used for the treatment of those suffering from the infection during the second wave of the pandemic, with people queuing up at plasma banks and looking for donors online. But a recent Canadian study published in the journal Nature has shown that not only did plasma therapy …

Patients unable to produce Covid antibodies supported by new drug
3 years, 4 months ago

Patients unable to produce Covid antibodies supported by new drug

NL Times  

The Erasmus Medical Center has begun using the drug REGEN-Cov to treat patients with Covid-19 who have a reduced ability to produce antibodies themselves. “You are buying time for patients to make their own antibodies”, said Bart Rijnders, an internist and infectious diseases specialist at the hospital. “In patients who will never produce their own antibodies, it helps the other …

Antibody cocktail treatment can help Covid patients recover faster, reduces mortality: BMC
3 years, 5 months ago

Antibody cocktail treatment can help Covid patients recover faster, reduces mortality: BMC

India Today  

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Monday said that antibody cocktail treatment can help Covid-19 patients recover faster and reduces mortality rate. The civic body's claim is based on an experiment of antibody cocktail conducted by Mumbai's Seven Hills hospital on 200 patients. ANTIBODY COCKTAIL FOR COVID-19 TREATMENT In order to successfully treat the affected patients and to alleviate the strain …

No evidence of Remdesivir's effectiveness, might be dropped as COVID-19 treatment: Dr DS Rana
3 years, 7 months ago

No evidence of Remdesivir's effectiveness, might be dropped as COVID-19 treatment: Dr DS Rana

Firstpost  

Ganga Ram hospital Chairperson Dr DS Rana said, “Medicines that do not have any activity to work, will have to be discontinued.” Ganga Ram hospital Chairperson Dr DS Rana on Tuesday said that Remdesivir is also being considered to be dropped from COVID-19 treatment soon as there is no evidence of its effectiveness in treating COVID-19 patients. While talking to …

Delete and control: On ICMR's dropping of plasma therapy
3 years, 7 months ago

Delete and control: On ICMR's dropping of plasma therapy

The Hindu  

The Indian Council of Medical Research has finally dropped its espousal of convalescent plasma therapy as treatment for moderate COVID-19 in its latest guidelines. Last year, the ICMR, in one of the definitive clinical trials in the world, demonstrated that CPT neither saved lives nor improved patient outcomes but was equivocal about it in public. This gave leeway to some …

Top medical experts welcome move to remove plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment
3 years, 7 months ago

Top medical experts welcome move to remove plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Several top medical experts have welcomed the Indian Council of Medical Research 's updated advisory released on Monday dropping the use of convalescent plasma from recommended treatment protocols for COVID-19. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital chairman Dr DS Rana said plasma therapy has failed to change the "course of mortality" and asserted that some scientists are also of the …

Not enough evidence to prove plasma therapy works: Top ICMR scientist on why India changed treatment protocol
3 years, 7 months ago

Not enough evidence to prove plasma therapy works: Top ICMR scientist on why India changed treatment protocol

India Today  

The Centre on Monday revised the clinical guidance for Covid-19 treatment, dropping the off-label use of convalescent plasma from the treatment protocol for adult patients. Dr Samiran Panda, Indian Council of Medical Research scientist who was also a part of the panel that dropped plasma therapy from Covid-19 management guidelines, told India Today that the decision was taken since anecdotal …

Why government has dropped plasma therapy for Covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Why government has dropped plasma therapy for Covid-19

India Today  

India has officially removed the use of convalescent plasma, popularly known as the plasma therapy, on Covid-19 patients from its clinical management guidelines for the disease. The previous guidelines allowed “off label” use of plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients during moderate stage within seven days of the onset of symptoms. WHY GOVERNMENT DROPPED PLASMA THERAPY Many a time, the prescription …

Found Ineffective, Plasma Therapy No Longer Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment
3 years, 7 months ago

Found Ineffective, Plasma Therapy No Longer Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment

News 18  

Days after various studies and expert panels suggested that plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients was found ineffective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death, the treatment protocol has been dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said. In the letter, which was also marked to ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, public health professionals alleged …

Govt removes plasma therapy as treatment for Covid-19 among adults
3 years, 7 months ago

Govt removes plasma therapy as treatment for Covid-19 among adults

India Today  

A government-appointed task force on Covid-19 on Monday removed plasma therapy from the treatment protocol for adult Covid-19 patients. In the revised clinical guidelines for management of adult Covid-19 patients, use of convalescent plasma therapy has been removed even as an 'off label treatment. Until now, India's Covid-19 treatment protocol allowed 'off label' use of convalescent plasma therapy but only …

COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines

Firstpost  

The present guidelines allows ‘off label’ use of plasma therapy at the stage of early moderate disease, that is, within seven days of the onset of symptoms New Delhi: Plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources …

Stop irrational use of plasma, may develop more virulent strains of Covid, warn experts
3 years, 7 months ago

Stop irrational use of plasma, may develop more virulent strains of Covid, warn experts

India Today  

A group of doctors, public health officials and experts have written to the Centre’s principal scientific advisor along with the AIIMS chief and ICMR chief, raising concerns over the “irrational and non-scientific use of convalescent plasma for Covid-19”. The letter addressed to Principal Scientific Advisor Dr Vijay Raghavan says, “We are writing to you as concerned clinicians, public health professionals …

COVID treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill

Associated Press  

If Priscila Medina had gotten COVID-19 a year ago, she would have had no treatments proven safe and effective to try. serious disease requiring hospitalization, and occasionally even tragic deaths,” the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently told the National Press Club. Remdesivir also is the only antiviral COVID-19 medicine — it interferes with virus reproduction …

COVID treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. serious disease requiring hospitalization, and …

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment
3 years, 9 months ago

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment

NPR  

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment Enlarge this image toggle caption Karen Ducey/Getty Images Karen Ducey/Getty Images More than half a million Americans have received an experimental treatment for COVID-19 called convalescent plasma. Sponsor Message She recalls thinking, "we have this new disease that didn't have any known therapies, and convalescent plasma has been used in new epidemic and …

Covid-19 antibodies may protect against reinfection later, study suggests
3 years, 10 months ago

Covid-19 antibodies may protect against reinfection later, study suggests

CNN  

CNN — There’s new evidence that connects testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies from a prior infection with a significantly lower risk of becoming infected again in the future. A study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Wednesday, found that people who tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies were at a decreased risk of coronavirus infection compared with those who …

Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant
3 years, 10 months ago

Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant

India Today  

A recent study has revealed that the dominant variant of the novel coronavirus or Covid-19 that emerged in patients after the convalescent plasma therapy possessed a mutation that is also present in the one first discovered in the UK. ".data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy associated with the emergence of viral variants with evidence of reduced …

Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported
3 years, 10 months ago

Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported

CNN  

CNN — The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. “This patient’s mutations include hallmarks of the new variants, like N501Y and 484K,” Li said. Then, as we saw these new variants emerging from the UK, from South Africa, from Brazil, we saw the same mutations.” The case, which Li and colleagues detailed late last year in a …

Studies find having COVID-19 may protect against reinfection
4 years ago

Studies find having COVID-19 may protect against reinfection

Associated Press  

Two new studies give encouraging evidence that having COVID-19 may offer some protection against future infections. on the order of the same kind of protection you’d get from an effective vaccine,” of getting the virus again, said Dr. Ned Sharpless, director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Among the 1,265 who had coronavirus antibodies at the outset, only two had …

Coronavirus | ICMR warns against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus | ICMR warns against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy

The Hindu  

The Indian Council of Medical Research has warned against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy for treating COVID-19. On Wednesday, it released report of an open-label phase II multicentre randomised controlled trial conducted across 39 public and private hospitals on the use of CPT in management of cases with moderate infection. The report concluded that the therapy “did not lead …

Indiscriminate Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Covid Patients Not Advisable, Warns ICMR
4 years, 1 month ago

Indiscriminate Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Covid Patients Not Advisable, Warns ICMR

News 18  

The country's apex health research body, ICMR, has issued an advisory statingthat indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus infected patients is not advisable. In an "Evidence Based Advisory to address Inappropriate Use of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Patients", the Indian Council of Medical Research said that a potential donor for convalescent plasma should have sufficient concentration of antibody …

Indiscriminate Use of Plasma Therapy Not Advisable: ICMR
4 years, 1 month ago

Indiscriminate Use of Plasma Therapy Not Advisable: ICMR

The Quint  

Experts in India have long called out the lack of evidence to support this treatment. Speaking to FIT, Dr Sumit Ray, Senior consultant of Critical Care Medicine, Holy Family Hospital, said, “The theoretical benefit of plasma therapy is in helping boost immunity if not enough is developed in the patient. But, the problem with COVID-19 is not of an inadequate …

Dutch Covid medicine made from blood plasma ready for use
4 years, 1 month ago

Dutch Covid medicine made from blood plasma ready for use

NL Times  

Blood bank Sanquin and plasma producer Sanquin Plasma Products produced 4 thousand doses of Covid-19 antibody treatment made from the blood plasma of recovered patients. The plasma medicine will first go towards preventing coronavirus infections in people with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients and people who have just undergone an organ transplant. Minister Hugo de Jonge of Public …

Treatment Protocols Being Reassessed 10 Months into Covid-19 Pandemic, Focus on Aspirin as Potential Drug
4 years, 1 month ago

Treatment Protocols Being Reassessed 10 Months into Covid-19 Pandemic, Focus on Aspirin as Potential Drug

News 18  

“From today, aspirin will be investigated in the world’s largest clinical trial of treatments for patients hospitalised with COVID-19. The Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 therapy trial is taking place in 176 hospital sites across the UK, and has so far recruited over 16,000 patients,” read the RECOVERY Trial’s web information page on Aspirin. This is the newest entrant in the …

The plasma dead end?
4 years, 2 months ago

The plasma dead end?

India Today  

Since ILBS Hospital, in New Delhi, inaugurated its plasma bank in early July, requests have poured in ceaselessly. Many examples of adverse reactions and the inability of plasma treatment to reduce Covid mortality have been recorded in the ICMR’s PLACID trial too. As a result, the ICMR has announced the possibility of removing convalescent plasma therapy as one of the …

Plasma Therapy Doesn't Reduce COVID Mortality: ICMR Study in BMJ
4 years, 2 months ago

Plasma Therapy Doesn't Reduce COVID Mortality: ICMR Study in BMJ

The Quint  

In India, the treatment first made news in mid-April when a patient in Delhi received experimental plasma therapy and was weaned off from ventilator support. Delhi’s Max Hospital gave a 49-year-old male COVID-19 patient plasma treatment on compassionate grounds. In the experimental treatment, antibodies from the blood of patients who have recovered from coronavirus are given to those battling the …

’Plasma therapy has saved lives of many including mine’: Jain on ICMR’s decision
4 years, 2 months ago

’Plasma therapy has saved lives of many including mine’: Jain on ICMR’s decision

Live Mint  

Delhi health minister Satyender Jain on Wednesday said that plasma therapy treatment has saved lives of many from the novel coronavirus in the past months, after the Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday said that it considers removing it from Covid-19 national treatment protocol. "Lives of more than 2000 people, including mine, have been saved through plasma therapy, so …

Mumbai local trains to allow women travellers from today; Centre mulls removing plasma therapy as treatment
4 years, 2 months ago

Mumbai local trains to allow women travellers from today; Centre mulls removing plasma therapy as treatment

Firstpost  

Currently only those engaged in frontline duties and falling in the essential staff category of the Maharashtra government are allowed to travel in the local trains run by Central Railway and Western Railway As daily coronavirus cases in India dropped below 50,000 for the first time in nearly three months, Railway minister Piyush Goyal announced that women passengers will be …

ICMR may remove plasma therapy from Covid-19 treatment guidelines
4 years, 2 months ago

ICMR may remove plasma therapy from Covid-19 treatment guidelines

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government is planning to delete convalescent plasma therapy from the national guidelines for covid-19 treatment after the Indian Council of Medical Research’s clinical trial showed that the therapy did not significantly benefit patients suffering from the disease, ICMR DG Balram Bhargava said on Tuesday. ICMR, which is the government’s apex bio-medical research agency, had conducted a 464 …

Male, elderly patients with severe COVID-19 may have higher levels of antibodies in their plasma, reveals study
4 years, 2 months ago

Male, elderly patients with severe COVID-19 may have higher levels of antibodies in their plasma, reveals study

Firstpost  

Scientists said that a possible explanation for this could be that due to severe disease, the inflammatory response in the body gets accelerated, recruiting more B-cells to fight the infection. This consequently results in more antibody production In the absence of definitive treatment for COVID-19, doctors are working on repurposing drugs to manage symptoms, reduce disease severity and using plasma …

The Rise & Fall of Plasma Therapy as COVID-19 Treatment in India
4 years, 2 months ago

The Rise & Fall of Plasma Therapy as COVID-19 Treatment in India

The Quint  

On a daily basis, one gets at least two to three messages of desperate family members searching for a plasma donor for their loved ones battling COVID-19. Delhi set up a plasma bank in June to cater to the increasing demand of COVID-19 patients, with several states following the example. In June, the Union Health Ministry, in their clinical guidelines …

What are the treatment options for COVID-19?
4 years, 2 months ago

What are the treatment options for COVID-19?

Associated Press  

What are the treatment options for COVID-19? Here’s what’s advised for various patients: -- Not hospitalized or hospitalized but not needing extra oxygen: No specific drugs recommended, and a warning against using steroids. -- Hospitalized and needing extra oxygen but not a breathing machine: The antiviral drug remdesivir, given through an IV, and in some cases also a steroid. However, …

Coronavirus antibodies from blood plasma donations start to fade three months after symptoms start
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus antibodies from blood plasma donations start to fade three months after symptoms start

Daily Mail  

Coronavirus antibodies in blood plasma donations fade rapidly after symptoms first appear, a new study suggests. Researchers followed a small group of recovered COVID-19 patients who donated their blood and found all of them showed decreases in antibodies after three months. Convalescent plasma therapy is when the liquid portion of blood is taken from a recovered COVID-19 patients and transferred …

Covid-19: Plasma therapy to start in eight north Bengal districts
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19: Plasma therapy to start in eight north Bengal districts

Hindustan Times  

The West Bengal government will start plasma therapy for coronavirus disease patients in eight districts in north Bengal next week. Indian Council of Medical Research has allowed convalescent plasma to be used for moderately ill Covid-19 patients. Convalescent plasma therapy involves extraction of plasma from the blood of Covid-19 patients four weeks after they have been cured of their viral …

Delhi to Continue Plasma Therapy for Coronavirus Patients Despite ICMR Study Showing No Benefit
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi to Continue Plasma Therapy for Coronavirus Patients Despite ICMR Study Showing No Benefit

News 18  

Covid-19 patients in national capital will continue to be treated with blood plasma donated by survivors of the novel coronavirus, Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain said on Thursday despite clinical trials not proving whether plasma therapy can help people fighting the infection. A trial conducted across 39 hospitals in India and spearheaded by the Indian Council of Medical Research found …

Coronavirus | Plasma therapy didn’t help COVID-19 patients: ICMR
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus | Plasma therapy didn’t help COVID-19 patients: ICMR

The Hindu  

Convalescent plasma therapy failed to benefit coronavirus patients, the largest trial conducted across 39 hospitals in India and spearheaded by the Indian Council of Medical Research found. The trial spanning April-July enrolled 464 hospitalised patients with “moderate” COVID-19 and administered convalescent plasma — antibodies derived from plasma filtered from the blood of those who have recovered from COVID-19 — on …

Coronavirus: Plasma therapy not beneficial in reducing mortality, shows ICMR study
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus: Plasma therapy not beneficial in reducing mortality, shows ICMR study

The Hindu  

Convalescent plasma therapy failed to benefit coronavirus patients, the largest trial conducted across 39 hospitals in India and spearheaded by the Indian Council of Medical Research found. The trial spanning April-July enrolled 464 hospitalised patients with “moderate” COVID-19 and administered convalescent plasma — antibodies derived from plasma filtered from the blood of those who have recovered from COVID-19 — on …

Plasma Therapy Ineffective in Reducing COVID Mortality: ICMR Study
4 years, 3 months ago

Plasma Therapy Ineffective in Reducing COVID Mortality: ICMR Study

The Quint  

This means that at best, plasma therapy is not getting at the crux of the problem. “Here you are giving plasma for a disease which is procoagulant or prone to causing clots.” Convalescent plasma was used in certain diseases where the immune response was poor or antibodies were not produced. So if there is already lung damage due to COVID, …

Convalescent plasma not proven for coronavirus, panel says
4 years, 3 months ago

Convalescent plasma not proven for coronavirus, panel says

CNN  

CNN — A National Institutes of Health panel said there’s no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients and that doctors should not treat it as a standard of care until more study has been done. “Convalescent plasma should not be considered standard of care for the treatment of patients with COVID-19,” the committee, which evaluates …

Plasma therapy is no surefire cure for Covid (opinion)
4 years, 3 months ago

Plasma therapy is no surefire cure for Covid (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: John P. Moore, PhD, has studied antiviral antibodies and how vaccines can trigger their production for more than 30 years. She is the principal investigator for the New York Coordinating Center of CONCOR-1, one of the largest Covid-19 convalescent plasma randomized clinical trials in the world. If it turns out to be impossible to prove that CCP therapy …

FDA's Hahn Apologizes For Overselling Plasma's Benefits As A COVID-19 Treatment
4 years, 4 months ago

FDA's Hahn Apologizes For Overselling Plasma's Benefits As A COVID-19 Treatment

NPR  

FDA's Hahn Apologizes For Overselling Plasma's Benefits As A COVID-19 Treatment Enlarge this image toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/AP Kevin Dietsch/AP Updated 4:35 p.m. At a White House event Sunday with President Trump, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn used a deeply misleading statistic to claim that a treatment the agency had just authorized for treating the coronavirus would save 35 lives out …

‘Not Enough Evidence of Effectiveness’: Experts on Plasma Therapy
4 years, 4 months ago

‘Not Enough Evidence of Effectiveness’: Experts on Plasma Therapy

The Quint  

This means that at best, plasma therapy is not getting at the crux of the problem. “Here you are giving plasma for a disease which is procoagulant or prone to causing clots.” Convalescent plasma was used in certain diseases where the immune response was poor or antibodies were not produced. So if there is already lung damage due to COVID, …

Coronavirus Update: Convalescent Plasma Treatment And Risks Of Reinfection
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus Update: Convalescent Plasma Treatment And Risks Of Reinfection

NPR  

Coronavirus Update: Convalescent Plasma Treatment And Risks Of Reinfection NPR takes a look at the effectiveness of convalescent plasma in treating COVID-19 and discusses a patient in Hong Kong who got infected with the coronavirus twice. HARRIS: Well, people who have recently had COVID-19 can donate blood plasma, which includes antibodies that target the coronavirus. One of the biggest studies …

HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization Of Plasma To Treat COVID-19
4 years, 4 months ago

HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization Of Plasma To Treat COVID-19

NPR  

HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization Of Plasma To Treat COVID-19 Enlarge this image toggle caption Pete Marovich/Getty Images Pete Marovich/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to expand the use of blood plasma in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The emergency use authorization announced Sunday involves convalescent plasma — taking antibodies from the blood of …

August 23 coronavirus news
4 years, 4 months ago

August 23 coronavirus news

CNN  

Nurse Lina Acevedo checks the plasma donated by a man who recovered from Covid-19 on August 14 in Bogota, Colombia. The problem is, we don’t really have enough data to really understand how effective convalescent plasma is,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University and a CNN medical analyst, told CNN Sunday. But as recently as …

August 23 coronavirus news
4 years, 4 months ago

August 23 coronavirus news

CNN  

Nurse Lina Acevedo checks the plasma donated by a man who recovered from Covid-19 on August 14 in Bogota, Colombia. The problem is, we don’t really have enough data to really understand how effective convalescent plasma is,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University and a CNN medical analyst, told CNN Sunday. But as recently as …

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