{"id":6844,"date":"2020-05-14T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:21:27","slug":"early-safety-indicators-of-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-in-5000-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/14\/early-safety-indicators-of-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-in-5000-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Safety Indicators of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma in 5000 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joyner et al. evaluated the safety of transfusing ABO-compatible human COVID-19 convalescent plasma among 5,000 hospitalized adults with severe COVID-19 disease. Only 36 (&lt;1%) serious adverse events were reported in the first four hours after transfusion, only 2 of which were judged by the treating physician to be related to the convalescent plasma transfusion. Although this study lacked a control group, these findings suggest that transfusion of convalescent plasma is safe in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 disease.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Joyner et al. (May 14, 2020). Early Safety Indicators of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma in 5000 Patients. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 14 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.12.20099879\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.12.20099879<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyner et al. evaluated the safety of transfusing ABO-compatible human COVID-19 convalescent plasma among 5,000 hospitalized adults with severe COVID-19 disease. Only 36 (&lt;1%) serious adverse events were reported in the first four hours after transfusion, only 2 of which were judged by the treating physician to be related to the convalescent plasma transfusion. Although&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/14\/early-safety-indicators-of-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-in-5000-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}