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Russia - Rakova: Moscow does not plan to stop treating COVID patients with plasma

Russia (bbabo.net) - It is not planned to refuse treatment of patients with coronavirus with plasma in Moscow. This was announced by the Deputy Mayor of the capital for social development Anastasia Rakova.

“As our doctors of leading clinics say, when using this type of therapy, it is very important to get into the therapeutic window correctly,” she explained in an interview with RIA Novosti, their own antibodies have not been developed, and the risk of a severe course of coronavirus is very high. " If a person is on mechanical ventilation, then plasma should not be used, Rakova emphasized.

At the same time, she recalled, the plasma of those who had been ill with covid is also used as a raw material for the drug "Covid-globulin". He, according to the deputy mayor, is especially important when a new strain appears.

Russia - Rakova: Moscow does not plan to stop treating COVID patients with plasma