日前美國總統川普曾在記者會上公開表示，抗瘧疾藥物「奎寧」已獲得美國食品藥物管理局核准用於治療新冠病毒。不過，美國有一對夫妻，自行服用奎寧，疑似引發藥物過敏，一死一命危。
奎寧藥物副作用，再度受到各界關注。國內醫師表示，藥物過敏是機率問題，台灣每年使用奎寧超過上百萬顆，其實是相對安全的藥物。
Hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as a possible antidote for the disease.
FDA approves first US coronavirus treatment: Doctors across the US can now treat the sickest Americans with plasma from recovered patients
- The FDA Tuesday cleared the way for doctors to use blood plasma from people who have recovered from coronavirus to treat critically ill patients
- Blood plasma contains antibodies that people infected by the disease develop to fight the virus
- Giving this antibody-rich plasma to a sick patient helps to ramp up their immune response to the foreign infection
- Plasma transfusion has been used for centuries as well as in China to treat COVID-19 patients, but is limited by the number of recovered people to donate
- It comes a day after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that state intended to begin treating this method in its sickest patients
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Most patients who recovered from the illness produced specific antibodies against the virus. They're now being asked to donate blood plasma to help treat others.
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