A game-changing coronavirus drug is already here

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The world is racing to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus infection, but the first approved candidates likely won’t be ready for widespread use for about 18 months.
Doctors are testing several other drugs that could improve the prognosis of patients, and one of them involves plasma.
COVID-19 survivors can donate plasma that can be administered to others to boost their immune response to the pathogen.
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The race is on to develop wonder drugs that can help humanity get rid of the novel coronavirus infection, but we’ll have to wait as long as 18 months to get them. These are vaccines that can provide immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus and eradicate the disease, assuming everyone on the planet gets inoculated. Until then, other cures including drugs that are used to treat various illnesses could be used to speed up recovery and reduce the number of fatal cases. And doctors are already working on the coronavirus “game-changer” drug we’re all waiting for.

If you immediately thought of hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial that President Trump believes is a game-changer against COVID-19, that’s not it. In fact, hydroxychloroquine is far from becoming a COVID-19 cure. There’s just not enough data to support the idea that it works. What does work, however, is an old type of therapy that’s now being customized for COVID-19 treatment.

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