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 circumstances, the cost of a unit of plasma is about $60. “Blood bankers are currently working with the Feds to model cost and I am guessing it will end up in the range of $800 or less,” Katz explained, “not counting the zillion hours spent by blood banks and hospitals building a new process in the middle of chaos.” In other words, the one-time treatment, as currently configured, costs a fraction of one night in an American ICU, which can cost about $6,000. Since then collecting and administering blood has become decidedly safer in China, as plasma collection sites were shut down and then reopened with routine HIV testing. The latter is particularly pertinent as HIV was spread to 900 children not by contaminated product, but rather contaminated needles – a key piece of the patient-to-patient convalescent plasma program.

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment
3 years, 10 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 …

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 …

Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported
3 years, 11 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 …

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 …

Treatment Protocols Being Reassessed 10 Months into Covid-19 Pandemic, Focus on Aspirin as Potential Drug
4 years, 2 months 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 …

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, …

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 …

Now the COVID poor are selling their plasma to survive
4 years, 3 months ago

Now the COVID poor are selling their plasma to survive

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Financial hardships are forcing some plasma donors to demand more money from COVID-19 infected patients in several parts of Andhra Pradesh. In a recent case at Indian Red Cross Society’s blood bank in Nellore, a voluntary donor expressed his interest to donate his plasma and when the authorities informed him that he would get Rs 5,000 as financial incentive …

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

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 …

What Delhi Did Yesterday, America Does Today: Kejriwal on US Adopting Plasma Therapy for Covid Treatment
4 years, 4 months ago

What Delhi Did Yesterday, America Does Today: Kejriwal on US Adopting Plasma Therapy for Covid Treatment

News 18  

"What Delhi did yesterday, America does today", said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday as his government claimed that the US adopted the model of convalescent plasma therapy for treatment of critically-ill coronavirus patients, taking a cue from the 'Delhi Model' of battling COVID-19. The Delhi government was "the first to seek permission for trials" of plasma therapy in April …

‘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, …

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 …

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 …

Convalescent plasma: FDA announces EUA for Covid-19 treatment
4 years, 4 months ago

Convalescent plasma: FDA announces EUA for Covid-19 treatment

CNN  

CNN — The US Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19, saying the “known and potential benefits of the product outweigh the known and potential risks of the product.” The FDA said more than 70,000 patients had been treated with convalescent plasma,which is made using the blood of people who …

Coronavirus: Trump claims ‘political reasons’ held up plasma authorization
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus: Trump claims ‘political reasons’ held up plasma authorization

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he believed “political reasons” had slowed down the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma but that he “broke the logjam” over the last week. He said he believed there were officials at the FDA and in the Department of Health and Human Services “that can see …

US President Donald Trump announces emergency authorisation of plasma to treat coronavirus patients
4 years, 4 months ago

US President Donald Trump announces emergency authorisation of plasma to treat coronavirus patients

India Today  

Making a "breakthrough" announcement on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said that the FDA has authorised the emergency use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of Covid-19 patients -- a technique that uses antibodies from coronavirus recovered patients to treat the ones infected with the virus. The FDA has issued an emergency use authorisation for a treatment known as convalescent …

FDA holds emergency authorization of plasma for Covid-19, according to the New York Times
4 years, 4 months ago

FDA holds emergency authorization of plasma for Covid-19, according to the New York Times

CNN  

CNN — A US Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for blood plasma to treat Covid-19 is on hold, but could still be issued in the near future, Dr. H. Clifford Lane, deputy director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The New York Times. “Of note, the safe use of convalescent plasma remains available to …

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 …

Delhi plasma bank: Over 700 COVID-19 patients get plasma
4 years, 4 months ago

Delhi plasma bank: Over 700 COVID-19 patients get plasma

Live Mint  

The Delhi Government's Plasma Bank has administered plasma to a total of 710 COVID-19 patients while 921 COVID recovered patients have donated plasma so far, the Delhi Chief Minister's Office said in a statement on Tuesday. Along with the various steps taken by the Delhi government to combat the virus, plasma therapy has streamlined the recovery of critically ill COVID-19 …

Delhi Govt Hopeful About Plasma Therapy As It Helps Streamline Recovery of Critical Patients, Over 700 Units Plasma Provided
4 years, 4 months ago

Delhi Govt Hopeful About Plasma Therapy As It Helps Streamline Recovery of Critical Patients, Over 700 Units Plasma Provided

News 18  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's initiative of plasma banks has proven to be a boon for Covid patients in the national capital as the therapy streamlined the recovery of critically ill patients. So far, around 710 units of convalescent plasma have been provided to patients across hospitals in Delhi. Until now, around 710 units of convalescent plasma have been provided, …

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 …

How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic

LA Times  

Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a microbiologist and physician at Johns Hopkins University, has spearheaded a nationwide initiative to test the healing powers of “convalescent plasma” from COVID-19 survivors. Also a reader of medical history, he burrowed into articles about the use of convalescent plasma during the 1918 flu pandemic, where it appears to have reduced patients’ risk of dying by 25% …

First Covid-19 patient to receive plasma therapy in Agra recovers fully
4 years, 5 months ago

First Covid-19 patient to receive plasma therapy in Agra recovers fully

India Today  

Agra won a major battle against Covid-19 on Friday when the first serious patient of Covid-19 returned home after having received plasma therapy. Speaking to India Today, Agra Divisional Commissioner Anil Kumar thanked the plasma donors and expressed hope that another woman patient who was receiving plasma therapy will also return home soon after having defeated the virus. SN Medical …

UP: Agra begins plasma therapy on serious Covid-19 patients
4 years, 5 months ago

UP: Agra begins plasma therapy on serious Covid-19 patients

India Today  

Uttar Pradesh's Agra has now started plasma therapy on serious Covid-19 patients. SN Medical College Principal Dr Sanjay Kala told India Today TV that they have started plasma therapy on serious patients. "Currently, two patients are undergoing trial, and, in the past 20 days, a dozen people have donated their plasma at the medical college acting upon an appeal issued …

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