COVIDcast: Convalescent Plasma in Older Outpatients with Mild COVID-19
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English - January 07, 2021 12:41 - 5 minutes - 8.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Education Courses covid covidcast emergency foam foamed medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Prior randomized trials of convalescent plasma in COVID-19 have had disappointing results. However, these trials included patients with severe illness who were many days (if not weeks) into the course of their illness. To date, it was hypothesized, but unknown, that the benefit would be in patients very early in the course of their illness. We cover an RCT by Libster et al in NEJM on convalescent plasma in older patients with mild COVID-19.
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Lauren Westafer and Jeremy Faust