A new study shows that plasma from recovered, newly ill Covid patients can help. But only if they receive the plasma donation early enough.
Published: January 9th, 2021, 11:00 PM—
–A patient recovered from Covid-19 donates blood. The plasma may help other sick people later.
The discrepancy could hardly be bigger. On the one hand, there is the great joy and relief that pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories have succeeded in creating highly effective and highly effective products in an absolute record time, as it appears, also to develop safe vaccines against the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus WITHto test tens of thousands of subjects. On the other hand, there is the great disillusionment in the development of effective therapies against Covid-19. “To be honest, it has to be said that we are not far at all with the therapy of Covid-19,” says Huldrych Günthard, senior doctor at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ).
