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Originally Posted by jyl
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Small trial (no control arm, only 25 patients) of treatment with transfusion oof convalescent plasma (plasma from recovered Covid patients). Patients were severely ill, over half on ventilators and rest on oxygen. 18 were discharged, one died, 4 remained hospitalized with severe disease, by end of three week trial. (I must have missed a couple in counting.)
Since there’s no control arm, hard to say if these patients did better than you’d expect with no treatment. But 18/25 recovered seems promising.
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Thanks! I missed this earlier...probably still giggling about heat lamps
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If it does prove to be statistically significant, is it viable on a large scale?