Opinion: For early testing of convalescent plasma, we were ‘building the plane while we were flying it’
During the Covid-19 pandemic, clinicians have seen many remarkable things. Among them is how a 19th-century therapy called convalescent plasma came to be used in more than 500,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients the United States and elsewhere.
Because we’ve had front-row seats on this journey, we’d like to offer answers to two key questions: How did this happen? Is it safe and does it work?
