Posted on 08/25/2020 7:34:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The World Health Organization on Monday warned that the use of plasma from recovered coronavirus patients as a treatment for the coronavirus remains experimental despite the White House's authorization of it Sunday.
"The results are not conclusive" on the treatment's effectiveness, the WHO's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said in a press briefing, according to The Associated Press. The same treatment has been used historically for flu and measles outbreaks and the Ebola outbreak that hit several west African nations.
President Trump, announcing the emergency authorization Sunday, described the treatment as a "breakthrough."
Swaminathan said the treatment remains experimental, and that, because different people produce different levels of antibodies, it can be difficult to standardize the treatment.
"Of course, countries can do an emergency listing if they feel the benefits outweigh the risks," she said, according to the AP. "But that's usually done when you're waiting for the more definitive evidence."
The use of plasma "should not be considered a new standard of care" for the virus, Swaminathan said in a letter, adding that further data on its use should be produced in the months ahead.
Although plasma treatment shows "huge promise," Martin Landray of the University of Oxford said, "there is a huge gap between theory and proven benefit."
"If effective, convalescent plasma could be rapidly used worldwide. If not, it could be abandoned," he said.
University of Leeds associate professor of medicine Stephen Griffin compared the White House touting the treatment to Trump's aggressive promotion of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.
"It appears that the lessons from hydroxychloroquine have not been learned," he said, according to the AP.
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Who cares?
China has been using it to treat Covid-19 at least as far back as January.
The usual suspects are lining up.
Who cares? “WHO” SUCKS......PERIOD!!!
This morning’s Atlanta paper headlined the view of EXPERTS that this treatment may well be ineffective. Just so you know. Now back to your basement - with all your masks around your head!
the UN and WHO are experimental, failed,
and there were no controls.
CLOSE THEM DOWN.
Convalescent plasma treatment in general IS NOT experimental. They have used it to treat other diseases. Even if is only showing a 35 percent success rate so far, that’s 35 people out of a hundred that it was able to save. That is a substantial number.
The head of the organization that wants to depopulate the planet is not pleased.
This is why his “free to try” thingee matters. I believe it was even discussed at the R convention last night. :)
This is also why so many of us are done with the WHO.
Ah, so they got Xi’s message. Or was it the DNC’s request? Dudn’t matter they’re America hating communists either way.
Yeah, they think climate change is responsible for everything bad. Just give them $billions and all will be well.
The headlines is deceptive. It is touted by the Mayo Clinic!
Hey Stephan Griffin, why don’t you try and help find was to treat this thing instead of waiting for the perfect instance to appear?
Everything should be put on the table with the understanding that some things may not work.
I was wondering what Pete Townshend or Roger Daltrey have to do with public health.
That made me laugh.
The WHO is irrelevant. Oh! Not The Who, whose music I still enjoy but the WHO, who have nothing that anybody enjoys and is nothing but a tool for the CCP.
They have been as helpful in this crisis as a mule's fifth leg.
well of course they did
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