Plasma taken from the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 and given to people sick with the disease does not reduce their chances of getting seriously ill or dying, new research has found.
Oct 23, 2020
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In January 1934, J. Roswell Gallagher faced a major problem. The staff physician at a boys' boarding school outside Philadelphia learned that one pupil, identified as C. Y., had been exposed to measles. While confined to ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have shown that it is possible for solid organ transplant recipients who contract COVID-19 to experience a natural immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. In their ...
Feb 10, 2021
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Richard Beckerson will never know whether it was convalescent plasma that made the lifesaving difference—or whether it was the antiviral drug remdesivir or a combination of both.
Sep 11, 2020
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A laboratory-developed pseudovirus containing the mutations found in the SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 variant (first detected in South Africa) was resistant to neutralization when exposed to three types of COVID-19 therapeutic antibodies ...
Mar 4, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Administration of convalescent plasma seems safe and results in improvement in clinical status for patients with severe or life-threatening COVID-19, according to a study not yet peer reviewed and posted on ...
May 18, 2020
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In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, clinicians and researchers from the CHU of Liège and the University of Liège show that the administration of plasma taken from convalescent donors after infection ...
Oct 25, 2023
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The country's first convalescent plasma transfusion trial results have been peer-reviewed and published, showing 19 out of 25 patients improving with the treatment and 11 discharged from the hospital. On March 28, Houston ...
Jun 2, 2020
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In the few weeks since New York City came to a socially distanced halt, more than 250 COVID-19 survivors have visited Rockefeller's otherwise quiet campus to contribute their blood to science. Here, a group of immunologists, ...
Apr 22, 2020
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Using convalescent plasma, Griffith University researchers have identified how it may be possible to make a future vaccine that will provide protection against all major strains of COVID-19.
Mar 8, 2021
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