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Updated: April 14, 2020 – 8: 51 PM
TULSA, Okla. — Doctors at Ascension St. John administered the first convalescent plasma injection to a COVID-19 patient in Tulsa.
FOX23 learned the patient is a woman and received the injection over the weekend.
After doctors did the procedure, they said the woman’s condition dramatically improved and she was moved off the ventilator on Monday.
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The plasma came from one of the first people in Tulsa to be diagnosed with the virus.
The procedure is part of a clinical trial being performed across the United States. The FDA has not yet approved it.
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