A 100-year-old man has successfully recovered from Covid-19 after doctors treated him with healthy blood donated by former coronavirus patients.
Mr. Wang, who has Alzheimer’s, represented a critical Covid-19 case due to suffering from several underlying conditions including heart failure and high blood pressure.
Despite the odds, however, the senior man recovered shortly after receiving a blood transfusion involving the blood of recovered coronavirus patients.
“Considering the patient was very old and he had a relatively weak immune system, we decided to use recovered coronavirus patient’s blood plasma as the main treatment,” Dr. Cai Chen said in an interview with the local media.
As scientists believe, a blood transfusion might help Covid-19 patients by providing them with virus-fighting proteins generated by people who had already beaten the killer bug.
In theory, it is suggested that the patients can use these antibodies as if they were their own instead of waiting longer for their bodies to generate them.
“The fact that we used anti-virus blood serum to cure the centenarian is going to boost the confidence of other patients,” hospital director Zeng Li told CCTV.
Previously, another centenarian, who is believed to be the oldest person to beat coronavirus, has recovered from the killer bug following a two-week quarantine.
101-year-old Mr. Dai from Hubei, China, was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus shortly after celebrating his birthday.
According to the reports, Mr. Dai looked “very energetic” as he had beaten the virus and left the hospital.
“He often talked about his 92-year-old wife. He said he needed to get better soon so he could go home and take care of her,” his matron, Li Lai, explained.
As the hospital confirmed, Mr. Dai was quarantined in February, shortly after experiencing coronavirus symptoms following his birthday.
Following his treatment and quarantine, Dai was thrilled to be able to return home to his wife.
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