The World Health Organization (WHO) advises against treating people with mild or moderate symptoms of covid-19 with blood plasma from patients who have recovered from the disease, said the organization on Tuesday (7).
Plasma from convalescent people with antibodies produced by their body to fight the coronavirus showed promising signs when given intravenously to other patients with covid-19.
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But in a recommendation published in the British Medical Journal, the WHO says that “real evidence shows that the treatment does not improve survival or reduce the need for mechanical ventilation, and that it is expensive and takes a long time to administer.”
For this reason, the WHO issues “a strong recommendation” against the use of blood plasma for people who do not experience severe symptoms of covid-19 and, even in the most critical cases, indicates that this treatment should only be given as part of a trial. clinical.
Plasma treatment was one of the potential treatments tested early in the pandemic, but it has been shown to have limited benefits.
WHO states that this recommendation is based on the results of 16 trials involving more than 16,200 patients with mild, severe and critical symptoms of covid-19.
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