UK to start trials on whether plasma could help Covid-19 patients | Malay Mail

Saturday, 25 Apr 2020 08:02 AM MYT

Up to 5,000 severely ill patients with Covid-19 could soon be treated each week with plasma as part of a new approach to treating the virus, the health department said on Saturday. In parallel with the national randomised clinical trial, the government is scaling up the national programme for collecting plasma so the treatment can be widely rolled out if it is shown to be effective, the department said.

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer said: “The UK is leading the world’s largest trials to find a treatment for Covid-19, with over 7,000 people so far involved testing a range of medicines; we hope to add convalescent plasma to this list shortly.”

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