Answer Bank: Can recovered patients' plasma help me prevent COVID-19?

The plasma of recovered patients of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has been proven effective in treating the new disease because it contains large amounts of antibodies that help fight the virus.

Some people might believe that the plasma can help healthy people to prevent COVID-19 through transfusion, however, the effectiveness of the plasma to some patients doesn't mean it can be used for prevention.

Plasma treatment is adopted when there is a lack of a vaccine or specific medicine during an epidemic outbreak. In the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the plasma treatment is used to save severe and critically ill patients.

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