Researchers are adapting a treatment from the 1918 flu pandemic — transferring antibodies from the blood of recovered patients — to help those with COVID-19. It's a stopgap that could be especially critical for first responders. (hereandnow)
A group of researchers in the U.S. say they're close to releasing a treatment that could help patients infected with the coronavirus. It's one that was used successfully during the flu pandemic on 1918.
It’s a treatment that was used during the 1918 influenza pandemic involving the use of blood from recovered flu patients. And now Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, is promoting convalescent serum antibody treatment to save especially first responders who are treating patients infected with coronavirus.
Isolating the antibodies is important, so there is no risk of actually injecting people with the virus, Hotez says. There is a risk of potential lung injury, but that is uncommon.
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