First of all, thank you everyone for providing a sane refuge from the craziness in the world these past few months. Today, my father is struggling with COVID & viral pneumonia. The doctors want to try the convalescent blood plasma treatment...what do you guys think?
4 years ago, if you told me I'd be trusting a random collection of internet strangers over a group of doctors I would have laughed in the most condescending (liberal) way, but these are the times in which we live.
Here’s an excerpt from the announcement on the emergency approval for plasma treatment Trump made on Sunday.
“Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that more than 70,000 patients have been treated in studies of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 and the treatment has been used in response to MERS and SARS as well as the flue and Ebola.
Azar said there has been a 35% increase in survival through the treatment in patients under 80 who were not on artificial respiration.
"The data that we gathered suggested patients who were treated early in their disease course, within three days of being diagnosed, with plasma containing high levels of antibodies benefitted the most from treatment," he said.”
This is great info, thank you