What is plasma? When people get sick, immune systems generate antibodies to fight the disease. Those antibodies (especially among very sick patients) float in people’s blood plasma — the liquid component of blood. How can it be used? Plasma from a recovered person (who was very sick) can be injected into a currently sick person. The antibodies fight the virus early until the patient’s own immune system has enough to fight. Plasma has been used to fight epidemics, like the 1918 Spanish Flu, diphtheria epidemic in the 1920s, and the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Plasma and COVID-19
Plasma and COVID-19
Plasma and COVID-19
What is plasma? When people get sick, immune systems generate antibodies to fight the disease. Those antibodies (especially among very sick patients) float in people’s blood plasma — the liquid component of blood. How can it be used? Plasma from a recovered person (who was very sick) can be injected into a currently sick person. The antibodies fight the virus early until the patient’s own immune system has enough to fight. Plasma has been used to fight epidemics, like the 1918 Spanish Flu, diphtheria epidemic in the 1920s, and the Ebola outbreak in 2014.