At least 30 Covid-19 survivors have registered to donate their blood to the SA National Blood Service to be used in a large clinical trial to see if their plasma, once separated from their blood, can help treat patients who have a moderate or severe form of Covid-19.
We don’t know if it will work, but the idea is to provide antibodies passively for the patients to fight the disease.Blood from Covid-19 survivors can be a rich source of antibodies or proteins that the immune system makes to attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19.
The May editorial in the journal, Lancet Haematology, however, points out: “Definitive clinical evidence showing the efficacy of convalescent plasma is scarce.” The trials are part of an initiative by the US National Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma Project, a group of physicians and scientists from 57 institutions in 46 states.
Vermeulen says the procedure is like giving blood, except that the blood drawn from the patient is run through a machine to extract the plasma and the red and white cells are then returned to the donor.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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