What is Convalescent Plasma?

What is Convalescent Plasma?

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By Sara Ryding, B.Sc.Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.

Convalescent plasma is a way of artificially inducing passive immunity by transferring blood plasma from patients who have had a disease to naïve patients. This can then grant the recipient immunity towards the disease because of antibodies present in the blood plasma. Convalescent plasma therapy is one of the proposed treatments for COVID-19.