Convalescent plasma does not help severely ill Covid patients – trial
by Sarah Boseley from on (#5CNV4)
NHS urges people to continue donating blood as research will continue on moderately ill patients
Convalescent plasma from people who have had Covid-19 does not help those who are severely ill in intensive care to recover, a major international trial has found.
No more very sick people will be recruited to the trial, known as Remap-Cap. But NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has urged people who have recovered from Covid to keep donating blood. Nobody yet knows whether convalescent plasma could help people who are moderately ill, they say. Those trials continue and and if plasma works it would be available in every country in the world.
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