Coronavirus blood treatment to be tried

UK to use the blood of coronavirus survivors to treat hospital patients ill with the disease

Prof Michael Joyner, from the Mayo Clinic, is leading the work.

"There are anecdotal reports of oxygenation improving and other patient improvements. Those are certainly heartening, but they need to be rigorously evaluated.""There's a lot we don't understand about the plasma. We're going to learn more about what's in the plasma, the components, the antibody levels, and other factors that may be there as the weeks go on.

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