US officials in large-scale effort to collect blood plasma to treat Covid-19
Grifols
€8.35
18:16 19/04/24
-3.16%
-€0.27
Health officials in the US are planning to ramp-up collection of blood plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients.
IBEX 35
10,729.50
18:45 19/04/24
-0.33%
-35.50
The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the discussions, said the talks were part of a large-scale effort to build supplies of the promising experimental treatment.
According to some accounts, so-called convalescent plasma had proven to be the sole effective treatment during the catastrophic 1918 pandemic.