the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and had varying degrees of success with it during the 2003 SARS outbreak, the 2009 swine flu (H1N1) outbreak, and the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa.
In 2015, scientists established this treatment as the protocol for Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment.Early in the COVID-19 outbreak, on January 20, 2020, doctors in China began treating severely ill patients with convalescent plasma.
They reported encouraging results from five cases in the journal JAMA. On March 28, 2020, Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas became the first academic medical center in the United States to.