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Male, elderly patients with severe COVID-19 may have..er levels of antibodies in their plasma, reveals study – Firstpost

Scientists said that a possible explanation for this could be that due to severe disease, the inflammatory response in the body gets accelerated, recruiting more…

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In the absence of definitive treatment for COVID-19, doctors are working on repurposing drugs to manage symptoms, reduce disease severity and using plasma of the recovered COVID-19 patients to help those infected with the virus. This is not the first time plasma is being used as a therapeutic agent; previously doctors have used plasma during outbreaks of measles, mumps and Ebola. Plasma refers to the part of the blood that contains antibodies from, in this case, recovered COVID-19 patients. These…

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