Why plasma recovered from COVID-19 patients may help others who get the disease | USA TODAY

COVID-19 treatment may be convalescent plasma.
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10 comments

  1. Really… the President jumped the gun a little bit. This is the problem. The medical community is so myopic. They have tunnel vision while people are dying all around them. It has already proven to save lives. Will it save everyone? Probably not but it has saved thousands.

    1. Covid19 is a new type of Coronavirus. It is about 2x as contagious as the “Spanish” flu. Worse, people who seem healthy can even be super spreaders. It spreads in fine particles when you talk even

  2. Too late for clinical trials. JAMA has studied the success rate but only in a 5 patient population. Step 1) dying patient Step 2) Donor Patient with the same blood type Step 3) infuse the blood to dying patient. When the rewards OUGHTWEIGH the risks, then there is no time for trials.

  3. isolate immunoglobulins from patient, inject these into mice, determine immunoglobulins specificities, mass produce immunoglobulin attachment moiety and inject this into population. Or let nature handle it.

  4. Dr Giuseppe De Donno head of the pneumology department Carlo Poma of Mantua in Italy has obtained excellent results with plasma therapy.
    He also treated a pregnant woman.

    Dr Amato De Monte director of the anesthesia and resuscitation department of the University of Udine, also in Italy, treated 36 covid-19 patients with ozone therapy.

    The results with this treatment have also been excellent.

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