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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…

A large study of 20,000 hospitalized covid-19 patients who received transfusions of blood plasma from people who recovered found the treatment was safe and suggests giving it to people early in the disease may be beneficial.The treatment, called convalescent plasma, is based on a century-old idea in medicine that has been used against measles, influenza…

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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…

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