By Jessica Hamzelou FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn speaking at a White House press conference on 23 August. He later clarified his remarks in a tweetSAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Blood plasma donated by people who have recovered from covid-19 will be used as a treatment for the infection in the US. The US Food and…
the experimental therapy, which involves transfusing the antibody-rich blood serum of recovered COVID-19 patients into people who are battling the illness.Of the 5,000 seriously ill patients who received blood plasma transfusions for the study, fewer than 1 percent experienced serious adverse events. The mortality rate seven days after treatment was 14.9 percent, but the researchers…
April 24, 2020A medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.Conva-what-now…?Convalescent plasma is the term used for plasma that is removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a disease, then transfused into a patient…
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