{"id":107228,"date":"2020-05-18T03:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/convalescent-plasma-is-safe-to-treat-covid-19-nationwide-study"},"modified":"2020-05-18T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:02:34","slug":"convalescent-plasma-is-safe-to-treat-covid-19-nationwide-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/convalescent-plasma-is-safe-to-treat-covid-19-nationwide-study","title":{"rendered":"Convalescent plasma is safe to treat COVID-19: nationwide study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/convalescent-plasma-is-safe-to-treat-covid-19-nationwide-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most comprehensive national study to date has found that convalescent plasma appears to be safe to use on COVID-19 patients, a promising development in the race to find a treatment for the deadly virus. But the study didn\u2019t determine whether the treatment works.<\/p>\n<p>A team of more than 5,000 doctors from over 2,000 hospitals and laboratories have been testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/plasma-treatment-being-tested-new-york-may-be-coronavirus-gamechanger-n1178436\" target=\"_blank\">the experimental therapy<\/a>, which involves transfusing the antibody-rich blood serum of recovered COVID-19 patients into people who are battling the illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most comprehensive national study to date has found that convalescent plasma appears to be safe to use on COVID-19 patients, a promising development in the race to find a treatment for the deadly virus. But the study didn\u2019t determine whether the treatment works. A team of more than 5,000 doctors from over 2,000 hospitals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}