People who fight off COVID-19 carry a powerful memento in their blood: antibodies that are primed to wipe out the disease. By lending these trained immune soldiers to other patients, survivors might be able to knock out three cases of COVID for the price of one. Antibody-rich blood plasma from people who have overcome COVID-19…
The race continues to develop treatments for patients battling COVID-19. One of them is called convalescent plasma therapy. It involves taking plasma from donors who have recovered from the novel coronavirus and giving it to those who are critically ill. KCRA 3's Stephanie Lin talked with Dr. Jonathan Hughes, medical director of Vitalant, to learn…
April 24, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETA medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.Conva-what-now…?Convalescent plasma is the term used for plasma that is removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a disease, then transfused…
Nearly one month into New York's stay-at-home order, Governor Andrew Cuomo presented several approaches to transition the state toward a "phased reopening" during his daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday.In the absence of a vaccine to protect against the disease, which Cuomo acknowledged will likely require 12 to 18 months of trials before it becomes available,…
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…