US FDA halts approval for plasma therapy to treat Covid: Report
New York: Blood plasma therapy that is being touted as the final resort to treat Covid-19 has not convinced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as it has put the emergency use authorisation for blood plasma to treat the deadly respiratory disease on hold, the media reported.
According to a report in The New York Times on Thursday, the FDA approval for plasma therapy is on hold and "more data is under review and the approval could still be issued in the near future, according to H. Clifford Lane, the clinical director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases".
According to the report, senior federal health officials said data supporting the plasma therapy was too weak.
Plasma donated by people who've survived Covid-19 has high levels of antibodies and is considered safe.
The proposed emergency approval was based on the history of plasma's use in treating other diseases, animal research, and a number of plasma studies, "including a federal government-financed Mayo Clinic research that's tested plasma in more than 66,000 COVID-19 patient and is the largest such study in the US".
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