Findings from a nationwide, multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggest that patients with COVID-19 have less chance of developing post-COVID conditions—commonly known as long COVID—if they receive early treatment with plasma from convalescent (recovered) COVID patients that contain antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
is an effective and safe option as an early outpatient treatment for COVID-19. The latest study looked at the long-term outcomes of a large portion of the participants from the 2021 clinical trial.
The original clinical trial found that 17 participants out of 592 who received the convalescent plasma required hospitalization within 28 days of their transfusion, while 37 out of 589 who received placebo control plasma did. This translated to a relative risk reduction for hospitalization of 54%. At 90 days after receiving either convalescent or control plasma, 590 of the study participants showed no post-COVID conditions, while 292 did. Of the latter group, the most commonly reported symptoms were fatigue and anosmia .
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