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For a background on Plasma Therapy, see here:

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-recovered-patient-plasma-trial.html

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Doctors in New York will soon test an experimental therapy for COVID-19 that uses blood from people who recover from the disease, according to news reports.

The therapy, known as convalescent plasma, takes advantage of the virus-fighting antibodies that are present in people’s blood after they recover from the illness, according to NBC News.

For the trial, researchers would collect plasma — the liquid portion of blood that does not include blood cells or platelets — from recovered COVID-19 patients. Researchers would then harvest antibodies against the new coronavirus from the plasma, and these antibodies would then be injected into people sick with COVID-19. The study researchers will then evaluate whether convalescent plasma improves disease outcomes.

There have been tests that show when a person is injected with the antibodies, that then stimulates and promotes their immune system against that disease,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news briefing Monday (March 23).

The trial, which officials plan to start this week, would only treat people who are seriously ill with COVID-19, Cuomo said.

This type of therapy is more than 100 years old and was used during the 1918 flu pandemic, a time when antiviral drugs and most vaccines did not exist, according to NBC News.


2 posted on 03/25/2020 4:50:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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I think I’d prefer the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin cure myself......


6 posted on 03/25/2020 4:57:24 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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so those old people hating on the young will be first in line....

isn't this reminiscent of adenochrome...blood from the young and healthy...

9 posted on 03/25/2020 5:02:38 PM PDT by cherry (])
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It’s essentialy another form of inoculation.

CC


10 posted on 03/25/2020 5:03:02 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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