Madison Hospital Joining National Effort to Fight Coronavirus
Thursday, April 9th, 2020 -- 10:32 AM
(CNN) -University Hospital in Madison will join a national effort to transfuse antibodies from the plasma of people who recovered from the coronavirus to treat patient still struggling with it.The technique is a century-old treatment used to fight off flu and measles outbreaks in the days before vaccines, and tried more recently against SARS and Ebola. With no approved treatment for COVID-19 and more than 11,000 deaths in the U.S., the unproven approach offers some hope against COVID-19. As of Tuesday night, Wisconsin reported more than 2,500 coronavirus infections and 92 related deaths, 49 of them in Milwaukee County.
UW Hospital has joined the National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project, started about a month ago by Johns Hopkins University, Mayo Clinic and other institutions. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins, through which UW Hospital's treatment program will operate, Hartman tells the State Journal.
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