WAY TO CONTROL THE CORONAVIRUS
Doctors in different
countries tested an experimental therapy for COVID-19 that uses blood from
people who recover from the disease, according to news reports. This kind of
“serological assay” might cause the primary real treatment for the disease. The
idea is named “convalescent serum” or “convalescent plasma,” a century-old the concept uses the blood of individuals who’ve recovered from disease to treat
people that still have it. Survivors of disease keep antibodies thereto pathogen
in their blood; they’ve “seroconverted,” which is to mention their blood and
system has changed. “There are several initiatives immediately to seek out
people that seroconverted and use their serum, their plasma, to treat severe
cases.
For the trial,
researchers would collect plasma the liquid portion of blood that does not
include blood cells or platelets from recovered COVID-19 patients. Researchers
would then harvest antibodies against the new coronavirus from the plasma, and
these antibodies would then be injected into people sick with COVID-19. The
study researchers will then evaluate whether convalescent plasma improves
disease outcomes.
This type of therapy is
quite 100 years old and was used during the 1918 flu pandemic, a time when
antiviral drugs and most vaccines didn't exist. Potential donors would
first, be got to undergo tests to make sure that they're not contagious and to
verify that their blood contains the antibodies needed to fight the disease,
state health officials said. After that, donors would go to a local blood bank
to give plasma the liquid part of blood left once cells and platelets have been
removed although the state is still working out logistical details. The treatment is not
without risks. There is danger in giving a patient the incorrect sort of blood
or inadvertently transmitting other pathogens during a transfusion, but safety
advancements over the past 20 years have made adverse outcomes rare.
Procedure:
An immunology-based the blood test is the first step. Sure, an easier test of how well a person’s blood
neutralizes the virus would eventually yield similar data, but those can take
quite three days. And you've got to use the active virus to try to it, which
suggests a grade 3 lab and permission from the CDC. The test will determine
whether an individual may be a good plasma donor, with a high enough “titer” of
antibodies to be helpful. Remember it is not easy at all, it has so many other
complications as well. It may be applied to serious cases only.
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