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WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Access to a blood plasma treatment for seriously ill COVID-19 patients has been made easier by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n
The agency said Tuesday that it is “facilitating access” for patients with life-threatening infections to receive injections of blood plasma taken from people who have recovered after testing positive for COVID-19 and who have antibodies to the virus, CNN<\/i> reported. The treatment is being tested in clinical trials by the state of New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The FDA decision is a “big step” forward, Arturo Casadevall, M.D., chief of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, told CNN<\/i>.<\/p>\n
“It has a high likelihood of working, but we won’t know whether it works until it’s done” and enough patients have been treated, he said. “We do know, based on history, it has a good chance,” said Casadevall, who has pushed for the plasma treatment.<\/p>\n
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