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WHO cautions on coronavirus plasma treatment: ‘The results are not conclusive’

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World Health Organization on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a U.S.

boost for the treatment has many scientists afraid formal studies will be derailed.On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized what’s called “emergency use” of the treatment under its special powers to speed the availability of promising experimental drugs during a public health crisis.

The action isn’t the same as approving plasma as safe and effective, and numerous rigorous studies are underway to find out if it really works.So far, “The results are not conclusive,” WHO’s chief scientist Dr.

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