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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/05/2020 01:39 PM Updated by: thepinetree on 03/05/2020 01:39 PM
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How Blood Plasma from Recovered Patients Could Help Treat the New Coronavirus

Boston, MA...Today STAT news published an article by By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper and ADAM FEUERSTEIN @adamfeuerstein. We thought we would pass it along as all of the news seems to be hysteria on spread rather than on treatments that might be possible in the short term. When it comes to creating treatments for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the first line of defense may be a century-old technology: purified blood plasma. Medical literature published during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 includes case reports describing how transfusions of blood products obtained from survivors may have contributed to a 50% reduction in death among severely ill patients.



In 1934, a measles outbreak at a Pennsylvania boarding school was halted when serum harvested from the first infected student was used to treat 62 fellow students. Only three of the 62 students developed measles — all mild cases. More recently, plasma-derived therapy was used to treat patients during outbreaks of Ebola and avian flu. And on Wednesday the Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. said it was developing a new coronavirus drug derived from the blood plasma of people who have recovered from Covid-19. Its approach is based on the idea that antibodies developed by recovered patients might strengthen the immune system of new patients.

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