Doctors at a Worcester hospital say they saved a coronavirus patient in the nick of time, thanks to an experimental treatment involving blood plasma.The vital signs of the COVID-19 patient, who was on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center, were getting terribly worse last Saturday."He was essentially approaching near maximal settings for the ventilator…
Researchers hope plasma from coronavirus survivors may help cure seriously ill patients, but this type of therapy for the virus is still experimental and clinical trials are underway. Still, some families have turned to plasma therapy when other treatments failed. Doctors at Orlando Health tried a cocktail of drugs, including hydroxychloroquine, to help save 52-year-old…
A New York family pleads for COVID-19 survivors to donate plasma. April 18, 2020, 6:28 PM6 min read The son of a retired New York state investigator hopes the experimental treatment of convalescent plasma will help his father, who has been in the hospital for more than two weeks battling the coronavirus. Danny Fernandez's son,…
Image copyright PA The UK is to try to use the blood of coronavirus survivors to treat hospital patients ill with the disease. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is asking people who have recovered from Covid-19 to donate their blood so they can assess the therapy in trials.The hope is that the antibodies they have…
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U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…