This is one way that doctors can significantly reduce coronavirus deaths

[Chris Smith]

• In the absence of a coronavirus cure that could prevent complications and significantly reduce the risk of death, doctors have been trying all sorts of therapies to save lives, including plasma transfusion.
• A brand new study shows that COVID-19 patients who receive plasma containing high quantities of neutralizing antibodies within three days from admission are less likely to die than patients who aren’t given a transfusion.
• The therapy can be administered as long as there’s enough plasm to go around, but any COVID-19 survivor can donate plasma to a local hospital to help with efforts to save lives.

When you discover a new infectious disease that doesn’t respond to any treatment, there’s one therapy you can attempt, assuming you have access to patients who manage to beat the infection on their own. It’s a therapy that has worked in a variety of other instances where effective drugs were not available for a new contagion, and has been successfully treating severe coronavirus cases already.

The first plasma transfusions proved to be effective in the early months of the pandemic, saving the lives of patients experiencing severe complications that could lead to death. But those observations were not enough to prove that plasma therapy is a valid treatment option for severe COVID-19 cases, so several studies were kickstarted to gauge the efficacy of the treatment. The results of the first significant study are in, and they show that plasma transfusions can reduce complications and save lives.

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