Don't give up on convalescent plasma, say experts after study finds no benefit

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Researchers called on Friday for more research into using blood from recovered Covid-19 patients - or so-called convalescent plasma - as a potential treatment.

“With just a few hundred patients, is still much too small to give clear results,” said Martin Landray, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Britain's Oxford University.

While the US and India have authorised convalescent plasma for emergency use, other countries, including Britain, are collecting donated plasma so that the treatment could be widely rolled out if it is shown to be effective. After seven days, use of convalescent plasma seemed to improve some symptoms, such as shortness of breath and fatigue, and led to higher rates of so-called negative conversion — a sign that the virus is being neutralised by antibodies.Ian Jones, a Reading University professor of virology, agreed with Landray that plasma may be more likely to work very soon after someone contracts Covid-19.

 

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