With the number of COVID-19 cases climbing daily, some doctors and researchers are looking to bring back a very old therapy: the transfusion of antibodies from the plasma of recovered COVID-19 patients into patients battling COVID-19 infection.
In this episode, Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses the effort to test plasma as a way to treat very ill patients.