Category: Infectious diseases
HIV and Covid Risk
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Anchor lead: Does having HIV put someone at higher risk for severe Covid infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Covid-19 is putting worldwide efforts to contain both HIV and tuberculosis at risk, after the best year yet for containment in 2018. Joseph …
What Helps?
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Anchor lead: Antibody treatment may point the way to why some people with COVID-19 get critically ill while others don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibodies don’t tell the whole story when it comes to the development of critical illness in people …
Good News
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Anchor lead: In the rather bleak landscape of COVID-19, convalescent plasma emerges as a bright spot, Elizabeth Tracey reports Convalescent plasma treatment, where antibodies in the blood of someone who has recovered from COVID-19 are given to hospitalized people with …
Making Antibodies
Timing Plasma Use
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Anchor lead: When should using convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 be tried? Elizabeth Tracey reports Convalescent plasma, which is a component of the blood taken from people who’ve recovered from COVID-19, seems to help people who are hospitalized with the …
Plasma Treatment
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Anchor lead: What is the status of using plasma from people who’ve recovered to treat COVID-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Using plasma from people who’ve recovered from an infection to treat those who are currently sick with it is a time-honored …