Convalescent in a sentence

He was wounded in November and returned to duty in March 1945 after recovering in the 826th Convalescent Center in England.

Senior citizens from three different convalescent homes in the Santa Clarita Valley were housed in the Boys and Girls Club Gym in Newhall following the Northridge quake on Jan.

A medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.

At the end of March, the FDA set up a pathway for scientists to try convalescent plasma with patients and study its impact.

But on Wednesday, he claimed the FDA was delaying authorizing convalescent plasma until after Nov. 3 for political reasons.

By far the oldest treatment being tested, though, is convalescent plasma.

Convalescent plasma has been used for about 100 years as treatment for other diseases.

Convalescent plasma is antibody-laden serum from the blood of people who've recovered from an infection.

Convalescent plasma should not be for sale and should be voluntarily donated for Covid-19 patients in need,” Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque said.

Convalescent plasma therapy, also called passive antibody therapy, seeks to obtain plasma from the blood of people who have recovered from the infection to inject into patients undergoing treatment.

Dr Wassim Shamsuddin, a consultant anaesthetist at Milton Keynes University Hospital Foundation Trust, donated convalescent plasma at Oxford Donor Centre after recovering from Covid-19.

During her few days as chief spokeswoman, she defended her credentials, sparred with some reporters on Twitter and pushed back against claims that the FDA’s convalescent plasma announcement was influenced by politics.

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn issued a mea culpa late Monday, conceding that he had overstated the benefits of convalescent plasma as a treatment of coronavirus at a news conference last weekend with President Donald Trump.

Historical data from convalescent plasma transfusion for other conditions (such as measles or Spanish flu) show that patients typically respond to the treatment in two to seven days.

In April, his family made sure he got the convalescent plasma as things began looking grim with little sign of improvement.

In a study last last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Chinese researchers reported about a pilot convalescent plasma therapy in 10 patients.

I see no problem with the theraputic use of convalescent plasma.

Like other approaches to dealing with the virus, convalescent plasma was a subject of scientific debate and disagreement.

Other people, like those who have gotten more severe cases of Covid-19 or those who have donated convalescent plasma, may have more robust protective antibodies.

Professor Mukherjee said: 'As a potential treatment for patients with moderate Covid-19, convalescent plasma showed limited effectiveness.