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23 Denia Hospital Takes Positive Steps to Treat Covid 19

begun a new treatment for patients showing mild to moderate symptoms of Covid 19, using plasma from donors who survived the virus. Passive antibody therapy, also known as Convalescent plasma transfusion, works by the patients receiving the antibodies that have al- major evidence on how to attack the virus. Convalescent plasma is already being used in referral hospitals around the world. In addition, it is also a procedure that has already been tried during

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The Denia Hospital has

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He goes on to say that, ‘the objective is to anticready defeated the virus from another person infected. So instead of your body creating antibodies as with vaccinations, it’s supplies your blood with a plasma that already contains them. vaccine, which is not yet available, by administering a plasma with antibodies that have already been able to neutralize the virus in a patient. In this way the defensive defi ciency of the patient is supplemented to allow Dr Angel Pellicer is one of the doctors that has his own body to generate the antibodies.’ been heavily involved with the study , based at Denia said, ‘Currently, apart from corticosteroids, in patients of a certain severity, we have no This fabulous work by the whole research team could be key in people’s speedy recoveries from the virus. ipate the action of the