COVID-19: Convalescent Plasma Update

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We are bringing you near-daily updates on COVID-19. There is a firehose of information and most of us are too busy to read and digest it all. Note: If you are listening to these more than a few days in the future, please beware that information may have changed and check subsequent episodes. This episode was recorded August 24, 2020.

Convalescent plasma has been a potential therapy for COVID-19. We covered the basics in this post, an RCT (Li et al) in this post. Here we discuss the US experience to date, which, despite detailing >35,000 patients who received plasma, did not randomize patients.