How treating serious COVID-19 patients with antibodies from recovered donors could work
4 years, 8 months ago

How treating serious COVID-19 patients with antibodies from recovered donors could work

ABC  

On Wednesday the Federal Health Minister announced an Australian biotechnology company is developing a potential new treatment for coronavirus, using plasma donated by people who have recovered from the disease. How antibodies help your immune system fight a virus Viruses are unable to replicate without a host cell, Dr Labzin said, so getting inside our cells is their main purpose. "We know that antibodies against COVID can neutralise the virus, but we don't know yet if that means having neutralising antibodies indicates that you're going to be immune," Dr Labzin said. "We're going to have a whole host of other factors in our plasma apart from just antibodies, and they do lots of things," Dr Labzin said. "We don't yet understand what about the immune response determines if someone's going to recover or if someone's going to get really sick, and that's really important to understand," Dr Labzin said.

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FDA revokes authorization for key anti-COVID drug, a blow for vulnerable Americans
1 year, 11 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 …

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

Body produces antibodies against COVID-19 for months even after a mild infection: Study
3 years, 7 months ago

Body produces antibodies against COVID-19 for months even after a mild infection: Study

Firstpost  

In the bone marrow, these cells continually secrete low levels of antibodies into the bloodstream to help guard against the virus. It’s normal for antibody levels to go down after acute infection, but they don’t go down to zero; they plateau.” The researchers found antibody-producing cells in people 11 months after first symptoms. In the bone marrow, these cells continually …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fact Check: Old list of blood donors circulated as plasma donors for Covid patients
3 years, 8 months ago

Fact Check: Old list of blood donors circulated as plasma donors for Covid patients

India Today  

As India is battling a renewed surge in Covid-19 cases, several states are witnessing a shortage of plasma from recovered patients. In 2016, a Facebook page named BLOOD DONORS shared the same list as from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Even in 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in India, the same list had gone viral, claiming to be of …

Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant
3 years, 11 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 …

Covid research: Convalescent plasma trial paused as results poor
3 years, 11 months ago

Covid research: Convalescent plasma trial paused as results poor

Daily Mail  

Injecting critically ill coronavirus patients with the blood of survivors does not boost their chances of getting better, a major study has found. Scientists running the REMAP-CAP trial have stopped enrolling infected ICU patients after finding 'no evidence' convalescent plasma therapy boosted survival rates. Health Secretary Matt Hancock donated his blood after recovering from coronavirus in March A clinical trial …

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 …

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 …

In recovering COVID-19 patients, antibodies fade quickly: Study
4 years, 2 months ago

In recovering COVID-19 patients, antibodies fade quickly: Study

Live Mint  

Antibody levels in the blood of COVID-19 patients drop rapidly during the weeks after their bodies have cleared the novel coronavirus, and symptoms have subsided, according to a study. However, recovering patients can't donate blood until at least 14 days after symptoms have subsided, to give the body time to clear viral particles. "But at the same time, our work …

Coronavirus antibodies from blood plasma donations start to fade three months after symptoms start
4 years, 3 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 …

Plasma Therapy Ineffective in Reducing COVID Mortality: ICMR Study
4 years, 4 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, …

Children can have both Covid-19 antibodies, virus in their system simultaneously
4 years, 4 months ago

Children can have both Covid-19 antibodies, virus in their system simultaneously

Hindustan Times  

Children may still have the potential to transmit the novel coronavirus even if they have a measurable immune response, according to a new study which says the virus and antibodies can coexist in young patients. The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, used a retrospective analysis of 6,369 children tested for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and 215 patients who …

Convalescent plasma not proven for coronavirus, panel says
4 years, 4 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, 4 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 …

‘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, …

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 …

FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19
4 years, 4 months ago

FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19

NPR  

FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19 Enlarge this image toggle caption Pete Marovich/Getty Images Pete Marovich/Getty Images President Trump announced on Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency use authorization to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from the virus. Joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex …

Coronavirus | Not all COVID survivors can donate plasma
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus | Not all COVID survivors can donate plasma

The Hindu  

Everyday, family members and friends of COVID patients are tapping into all their contacts earnestly hoping to find a recovered person who is willing to donate plasma. Transfusion medicine specialist Dr. Hitesh Kumar, also head of the blood bank at KIMS, explained about who all can donate plasma, how many times a person can donate plasma, and if there will …

Covid-19: No benefit of plasma therapy in reducing mortality risk, says AIIMS
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19: No benefit of plasma therapy in reducing mortality risk, says AIIMS

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Convalescent plasma therapy did not show benefit in reducing mortality risk among COVID-19 patients, according to an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial done at AIIMS here to assess the efficacy of this mode of treatment. AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria told PTI on Thursday no clear mortality benefit of convalescent plasma therapy was seen during a …

Coronavirus: AIIMS study says convalescent plasma therapy fails to reduce mortality risk in Covid patients
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus: AIIMS study says convalescent plasma therapy fails to reduce mortality risk in Covid patients

India Today  

Convalescent plasma therapy, which is being widely used in the medical treatment of severely-ill Covid-19 patients, is not effective in reducing mortality risk, an AIIMS study has said. Plasma therapy still remains part of the investigational treatments for Covid-19 as per ICMR guidelines. "Plasma therapy needs to be administered when the patient's need for oxygen goes up, even with moderate …

17 doctors, nurses, paramedics of Mumbai hospital donate plasma
4 years, 5 months ago

17 doctors, nurses, paramedics of Mumbai hospital donate plasma

India Today  

As many as 17 doctors, nurses and paramedics of the Bhatia Hospital in Mumbai came forward to donate plasma on Tuesday to help the Covid-19 patients in need. "This pandemic has tested the brave frontline health workers both mentally and physically, despite which, my staff has selflessly volunteered to donate their plasma which will go a long way in easing …

Covid-19 rises in ICU but medical boss unconcerned; Antibody experiment halted
4 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 rises in ICU but medical boss unconcerned; Antibody experiment halted

NL Times  

There were 23 people with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care on Monday, an increase of five from the previous day. While ICU cases rose, the remaining hospital departments were treating six fewer patients for a total of 81, said patient coordination office LCPS. With 104 patients in hospitals for the coronavirus disease, acute care leader Ernst Kuipers said he …

Uddhav Thackeray launches Project Platina: Antibody therapy to treat COVID-19 begets hope of cure before a vaccine is developed
4 years, 6 months ago

Uddhav Thackeray launches Project Platina: Antibody therapy to treat COVID-19 begets hope of cure before a vaccine is developed

Firstpost  

Till the time we have a mass-scale cure for COVID-19 in place, treatments like plasma therapy are still better than waiting for the body’s immune system to take over. In such a time, plasma therapy has come into focus as a real need for a developing nation like India, which is reeling under the economic, health and logistical strain of …

Antibodies acquired after coronavirus infection won't be effective for very long: Study
4 years, 6 months ago

Antibodies acquired after coronavirus infection won't be effective for very long: Study

Firstpost  

The results offer a strong note of caution against the idea of ‘immunity certificates’ for people who have recovered from COVID-19. Antibodies — protective proteins made in response to an infection — may last only two to three months, especially in people who never showed symptoms while they were infected. Several studies have now shown that most people who are …

Netherlands launches €10m blood plasma drive to fight Covid-19
4 years, 6 months ago

Netherlands launches €10m blood plasma drive to fight Covid-19

NL Times  

The Dutch government is teaming up with blood bank organization Sanquin to collect blood plasma from former Covid-19 patients in the hope that antibodies can be used to help treat people who are actively fighting off the coronavirus disease. "Several drug manufacturers are investigating whether a drug with neutralizing antibodies can be effective and safe in the treatment and prevention …

Coronavirus: Treating Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from those recovered is safe
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus: Treating Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from those recovered is safe

Hindustan Times  

Treating patients suffering from coronavirus infection with transfusion of blood plasma from those who already recovered from the disease have been found to be safe and beneficial, a study suggested. The treatment, also called convalescent plasma, found that people who recover from infection have virus-fighting antibodies floating in their blood, and transfusions of their plasma -- the clear liquid after …

Antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients show powerful protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection
4 years, 6 months ago

Antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients show powerful protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection

Firstpost  

Scientists have long suspected that antibodies in the blood of COVID-19 patients that have successfully fought the infection and recovered could provide powerful protection against SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. “The discovery of these very potent antibodies represents an extremely rapid response to a totally new pathogen,” co-senior author Dennis Burton, the James and Jessie Minor Chair in …

Can plasma therapy help people who have been exposed to COVID-19, stave off the infection?
4 years, 6 months ago

Can plasma therapy help people who have been exposed to COVID-19, stave off the infection?

Firstpost  

A study with 150 volunteers will get either plasma from COVID-19 survivors or regular plasma, to find if the virus can be nipped in the bud. With more rigorous testing of plasma treatment underway, Shoham is launching a nationwide study asking the next logical question: Could giving survivors plasma right after a high-risk exposure to the virus stave off illness? …

Plasma therapy saves critically ill Kerala COVID-19 patient
4 years, 6 months ago

Plasma therapy saves critically ill Kerala COVID-19 patient

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: A COVID-19 patient who was critically ill and was put on ventilator support was brought back to life by employing antibodies of a person cured of the novel coronavirus. The patient admitted in Government Medical College recovered through the plasma therapy. Called convalescent plasma collection, the therapy benefitted a 51-year-old COVID-19 patient. The procedure, which is followed by infusing …

They prepared for years for a pandemic. Now the pressure is on to create a therapy that could help control it
4 years, 7 months ago

They prepared for years for a pandemic. Now the pressure is on to create a therapy that could help control it

CNN  

CNN — Kristin Pascal jokes with friends at Zoom game night that she’s spent the Covid-19 pandemic moving clear liquids around the office. “So we thought, let’s be prepared.” To prepare, Pascal and her team ran speed challenges to see exactly how fast they could create a treatment for an emerging threat. “And, like, growing amounts of pressure.” They work …

Blood plasma appears safe for COVID-19 patients in early trial results
4 years, 7 months ago

Blood plasma appears safe for COVID-19 patients in early trial results

LA Times  

A doctor in Panama City holds a donation of convalescent blood plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient. Taking antibody-rich blood plasma from people who have recovered from coronavirus infections and transferring it to patients who are severely ill with COVID-19 does not appear to increase their risk of dying from the disease, according to initial results of a nationwide clinical …

Potential coronavirus treatment announced using plasma of recovered patients
4 years, 8 months ago

Potential coronavirus treatment announced using plasma of recovered patients

ABC  

The Federal Health Minister has announced a potential new treatment for COVID-19 using plasma donations from people that have recovered from the virus is set to be produced by the end of the year, before being clinically trialled. Key points: Production of potential plasma treatment to start later this year Production of potential plasma treatment to start later this year …

Unregulated use of plasma therapy for COVID-19 can be harmful, writes expert; can expose patients to serious transfusion-related risks
4 years, 8 months ago

Unregulated use of plasma therapy for COVID-19 can be harmful, writes expert; can expose patients to serious transfusion-related risks

Firstpost  

It is a promising solution at the present gloomy situation, but till we have reliable evidence on utility unregulated use is to be avoided Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on 29 April. Which COVID-19 patients can have plasma therapy Currently, India has not framed any guideline for mass use of plasma therapy in COVID-19 patients. The USFDA, the …

Plasma therapy is no silver bullet
4 years, 8 months ago

Plasma therapy is no silver bullet

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to governments, health professionals and the general public at large, around the world. Coronavirus | Health Ministry does a U-turn on plasma therapy So is the case with the convalescent plasma therapy, that is being currently studied by the Indian Council of Medical Research, through open label, randomised controlled trial to evaluate it …

Coronavirus: Health Ministry says plasma therapy can be harmful as still being tested, issues caution
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Health Ministry says plasma therapy can be harmful as still being tested, issues caution

Op India  

The Union Health Ministry today cautioned on use of plasma therapy as a possible cure for coronavirus. ICMR issues clarification on plasma trials In a statement issued today, the ICMR said that currently there is no approved, definitive therapies for coronavirus and that convalescent plasma is one of the several emerging therapies. 2/4 — ICMR April 28, 2020 Despite the …

Plasma therapy to treat Covid19 positive patients begins in Lucknow hospital
4 years, 8 months ago

Plasma therapy to treat Covid19 positive patients begins in Lucknow hospital

Deccan Chronicle  

Lucknow: A 58-year-old doctor became the first coronavirus patient at the King George Medical University to receive plasma therapy as an experimental treatment for the disease, a hospital official said on Monday. The doctor from Orai in Uttar Pradesh was administered the plasma donated by a woman doctor from Canada who was the first COVID-19 patient admitted to the KGMU …

Coronavirus | U.K. to start trials on whether plasma could help COVID-19 patients
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | U.K. to start trials on whether plasma could help COVID-19 patients

The Hindu  

Britain is to start trials to see whether plasma collected from donors who have recovered from COVID-19 could be an effective treatment for patients who are severely unwell with the disease. Up to 5,000 severely ill patients with COVID-19 could soon be treated each week with plasma as part of a new approach to treating the virus, the health department …

Plasma may be the best option in the fight against Covid-19, but don’t celebrate just yet (Opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

Plasma may be the best option in the fight against Covid-19, but don’t celebrate just yet (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Louis Katz, former Chief Medical Officer of America’s Blood Centers and now Chief Medical Office of the Mississippi Regional Blood Center in Davenport, Iowa, where he grew up, has said that under normal …

What is Plasma Therapy: A possible treatment for coronavirus?
4 years, 8 months ago

What is Plasma Therapy: A possible treatment for coronavirus?

India Today  

As Covid-19 continues to wreck havoc across the globe, scientists are racing to develop antidotes for the new coronavirus, which began infecting humans late last year. The convalescent plasma therapy aims at using antibodies from the blood of a recovered Covid-19 patient to treat those critically affected by the virus. The convalescent plasma therapy uses antibodies developed within an infected …

Coronavirus | Will convalescent plasma help COVID-19 patients?
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Will convalescent plasma help COVID-19 patients?

The Hindu  

The story so far: As the months progress, the world seems still maddeningly short of definitive treatment or vaccine options against COVID-19. Convalescent plasma is a time-tested strategy that has worked successfully with several other diseases, and doctors struggling to bring relief to COVID-19 patients have turned towards it — it is blood derived from patients who have recovered from …

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