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In-Depth: Why hospitals abandoned convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients
In-depth: Why hospitals stopped using plasma
and last updated 2021-04-30 00:48:05-04
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) For months, U.S. hospitals relied on convalescent plasma to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients, administering as many as 25,000 units per week.
But today, hospitals across the country have largely abandoned the once-touted therapy.
The news may come as a surprise to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who got the treatment, particularly those who credited the experimental therapy with saving their lives.
âThe bottom line is that we have largely moved past convalescent plasma as a prevention strategyâ for COVID-19, said Dr. Gary Firestein, senior associate vice chancellor for health sciences at UC San Diego.
Researchers seek antiviral pill that would ease COVID-19 severity
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Researchers around the world are working to develop an antiviral drug that would target the virus that causes COVID-19. Pool Photo by Saul Loeb/UPI | License Photo
COVID-19 research efforts must now shift toward the development of a pill that can prevent serious illness in the recently infected, experts say. We need a pill that can keep people out of the hospital, and the time to develop that is right now, Dr. Rajesh Gandhi said during a Thursday media briefing by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is director of HIV Clinical Services and Education at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
ASM joined partners in submitting the following request to Congress.
Dear Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair Murray and Ranking Member Blunt
cc: Chair DeLauro, Ranking Member Granger and Ranking Member Cole:
We, the undersigned organizations, respectfully request that you provide $60 million for the Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill. The AMD program uses next generation sequencing (NGS) to bring the concept of precision medicine to bear for “precision public health.”
AMD gives us new tools to detect disease faster, identify outbreaks sooner, and protect people from emerging and evolving disease threats. It informs vaccine development, helps identify and track antimicrobial resistance and foodborne illness, and informs the development of diagnostics for new, existing and emerging diseases. AMD has played a
Some women are reporting temporary changes in their menstrual cycles after taking their dose of the COVID vaccine.
Anecdotal evidence from women worldwide had raised questions about whether the COVID vaccine affects menstrual cycles, ABC 7 Chicago reported. I had my 1st COVID-19 vaccine in January followed by the 2nd in February, and since then I have had hemorrhagic bleeding with clots. This month of April was the heaviest, one woman wrote in a social media post.
Another woman said: My period has been the lightest in years for the past 2 cycles. Was beginning to wonder if I was pushed into pre-menopause.