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Showing Original Post only (View all)First COVID-19 critically ill patient at UMass Memorial treated with plasma showing significant [View all]
improvement.
https://www.boston25news.com/news/health/first-covid-19-critically-ill-patient-umass-memorial-treated-with-plasma-showing-significant-improvement/HJHALVG5RVEGDG6AV6CPYINCEA/
"The idea is to take plasma from a healthy donor who recovered from COVID-19 and inject it in a patient so the donors antibodies can help the patient fight off the disease.
After hours of transfusion, doctors noticed the patient had improved dramatically and is now starting to wean off the ventilator. That same patient needed near maximal settings on the ventilator to fully oxygenate him prior to the transfusion."
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CentralMass
Apr 2020
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Hoping that means that there are SOME antibodies produced and available after getting better
htuttle
Apr 2020
#3
I'm under the impression that there are a limited, although large number of different cold viruses.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Apr 2020
#14
I can work. Was being used effectively in the early 1900s but after vaccinations and antibiotics
GulfCoast66
Apr 2020
#10
A country doctor in Michigan used this to treat cancer, and it worked, back in the 90's.
BComplex
Apr 2020
#25