Plasma is the yellow residue you see after blood comes out. According to researchers, potential life-saving antibodies live in the plasma of a person recovering from COVID-19.
The idea is that if a person who is sick with COVID-19 gets the anti-cancer plasma, she will recover. Doctors said it takes time to see how well this actually works.
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At Houston Methodist Hospital, there were 136 patients who received COVID-19 antibodies and were more likely to be alive four weeks later, compared with 251 patients who did not receive it. Doctors said the key gave her the plasma within three days to the hospital.
There are 10 threads like this that happen all over the United States, but each trial has a few hundred people.
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