WHO: plasma treatment approved by Trump still "inconclusive" against COVID
Telegraph, 24 Aug 2020
The World Health Organization says using plasma from the recovered to treat COVID-19 is still considered an "experimental" therapy and that the preliminary results showing it may work are still "inconclusive."
President Donald Trump on Sunday approved an emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients.
WHO's chief scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said convalescent plasma therapy has been used in the last century to treat numerous infectious diseases, with varying levels of success.
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