Plasmapheresis transfers for critically ill patients from recovered patients.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

https://inside.mountsinai.org/blog/mount-sinai-to-begin-the-transfer-of-covid-19-antibodies-into-critically-ill-patients/?fbclid=IwAR3K24ihhZpYA-2ZFmTbgs0A7ZRfQ0u5JZ0SXz5O8hPs6bQ5gjkR3k3Yklw#.XnzxikC6Mos.facebook

The Mount Sinai Health System this week plans to initiate a procedure known as plasmapheresis, where the antibodies from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 will be transferred into critically ill patients with the disease, with the expectation that the antibodies will neutralize it.

The process of using antibody-rich plasma from COVID-19 patients to help others was used successfully in China, according to a state-owned organization, which reported that some patients improved within 24 hours, with reduced inflammation and viral loads, and better oxygen levels in the blood.

Mount Sinai is collaborating with the New York Blood Center and the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center laboratory in Albany, with guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and expects to begin implementing the treatment later this week.

“We are hoping to identify patients who can provide the antibodies,” says Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System. “We are at the front lines in fighting this pandemic and making discoveries that will help our patients.”

[DanieRains]

1. Fingers Crossed Toes Crossed Arms Crossed Legs Crossed

I don't want to die......

[WePurrsevere]

2. Hopefully this truly helps people...

We so desperately need treatments that work as well as a vax.

Thanks for sharing a bit of much needed hope.

[Hekate]

3. My gods I hope this works

[friend of m and j]

4. I trust Mt Sinai to devellop a cure a lot more

than the chewing gum that Alex Jones is selling on his radio show as a cure.

[NBachers]

5. I hope it works, but then despicable trump will bluster his way into taking credit for it all.

[flibbitygiblets]

6. worse would be if it doesn't work, and trump goes on TV saying it does

then somebody will try to make money selling PRP injections

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Thanks, everybody, for your great, hopeful comments!