Doctors at Children's Hospital Colorado are calling on people who have already recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma as part of an experimental treatment to help patients who are still sick.
Leonard told ABC News that her father received a plasma transfusion from a donor on Thursday morning, and now doctors and his family are waiting to see if it works.
"Use of convalescent plasma has been studied in outbreaks of other respiratory infections, including the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, 2003 SARS-CoV-1 epidemic, and the 2012 MERS-CoV epidemic. Although promising, convalescent plasma has not been shown to be effective in every disease studied," the agency wrote.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, front, makes a point as Dr. Marc Moss, a professor of pulmonary science and critical care at the University of Colorado, looks on during a news conference as a statewide stay-at-home order remains in effect in an effort to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus Monday, March 30, 2020, in Centennial, Colo."Roughly, it takes about 24 hours to get this to a patient," she said.
"When these antibodies are transfused into the patient, it may cause a little bit of a dampening of the patient's own immune system. So in some ways we're giving the patient antibodies to help them immediately, but it could potentially actually slow down their ability to make their own antibodies," she said."The general belief is that giving the antibodies is more beneficial than the idea of this possibility. But it is something that we are trying to look at.
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