Doctors say the government is dragging its feet on approving plasma therapy trials for treating patients suffering from COVID-19.
"We have a national health service and blood service that is the envy of the world, we have a very substantially-sized department of blood transfusion, and for people harvesting blood plasma, we could step it up within a week.There are no effective treatments for
Last week, Mr Raab responded and sent a letter to Mr Hancock asking about the use of plasma therapy but no decision has been made on when trials will begin."It's incredibly frustrating," he said. "There is a research framework which is up and running, which it may or may not become part of. I very much hope it does. This is something we could get up and running very quickly indeed."
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