{"id":12297,"date":"2020-04-20T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2020-05-20T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:08:10","slug":"u-k-to-trial-use-of-covid-19-survivors-blood-plasma-for-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/u-k-to-trial-use-of-covid-19-survivors-blood-plasma-for-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. to trial use of COVID-19 survivors&#8217; blood plasma for treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>LONDON \u2014 The United Kingdom is preparing to collect the blood from COVID-19 survivors to investigate if convalescent plasma transfusions could improve an infected patient\u2019s speed of recovery and chances of survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to collect COVID-19 convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from this illness,\u201d a spokeswoman said. \u201cWe envisage that this will be initially used in trials as a possible treatment for COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf fully approved, the trials will investigate whether convalescent plasma transfusions could improve a COVID-19 patient\u2019s speed of recovery and chances of survival,\u201d the blood service said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working closely with the government and all relevant bodies to move through the approvals process as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People who have recovered from COVID-19 can register with the NHS if they are interested in donating plasma but they should not just turn up at blood donation centres.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canoe.com\/news\/world\/u-k-to-trial-use-of-covid-19-survivors-blood-plasma-for-treatment\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The United Kingdom is preparing to collect the blood from COVID-19 survivors to investigate if convalescent plasma transfusions could improve an infected patient\u2019s speed of recovery and chances of survival.\u201cNHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to collect COVID-19 convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from this illness,\u201d a spokeswoman said. \u201cWe envisage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16388,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions\/16388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}