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| Subject: Chinese doctors using plasma therapy on coronavirus Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:52 pm | |
| Doctors in Shanghai are using infusions of blood plasma from people who have recovered from the coronavirus to treat those still battling the infection, reporting some encouraging preliminary results, a Chinese professor said on Monday.
A top emergency expert at the World Health Organisation (WHO) said later that using convalescent plasma was a "very valid" approach to test, but that it was important to get the timing right to maximise the boost to a patient's immunity.
The coronavirus epidemic is believed to have originated in a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, and has so far killed 1770 people and infected more than 70,000 in mainland China.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/chinese-doctors-using-plasma-therapy-on-coronavirus-20200218-p541q5.html |
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