Trump Hypes FDA Emergency Authorization of COVID-19 Plasma Treatment
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday announced it had issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent blood plasma as an experimental treatment for COVID-19.
The treatment, which hinges on injecting antibodies from COVID-19 survivors into other patients to boost their body’s defenses against the virus, has been used on at least 97,000 patients. So far, though, the plasma treatment has only produced middling data to support its efficacy.
“This is what I’ve been looking to do for a long time,” President Trump said at a Sunday afternoon press conference announcing what he called a “very historic breakthrough.”
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