{"id":24091,"date":"2020-10-23T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/covid-19-blood-plasma-therapy-has-limited-effect-study-finds"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T23:01:38","slug":"covid-19-blood-plasma-therapy-has-limited-effect-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24091","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 blood plasma therapy has limited effect, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authors agree other trials using higher antibody levels may prove more effective<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been touted as a breakthrough treatment by Donald Trump, and there are hopes that blood plasma containing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/nhs-appeals-for-urgent-plasma-donations-from-covid-19-coronavirus-survivors\">coronavirus antibodies<\/a> may help British patients during the second wave of Covid-19 as well.<\/p>\n<p>But a study, which is published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/371\/bmj.m3939\">British Medical Journal<\/a> (BMJ) on Friday, suggests \u201cconvalescent plasma\u201d has only limited effectiveness and fails to reduce deaths or stop the progression to severe disease.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/covid-19-blood-plasma-therapy-has-limited-effect-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors agree other trials using higher antibody levels may prove more effectiveCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt has been touted as a breakthrough treatment by Donald Trump, and there are hopes that blood plasma containing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[918,1066,62,914,512,916,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091\/revisions\/24092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}