KGTV: Why Some Hospitals Stopped Plasma Treatments For COVID Patients

KGTV: Why Some Hospitals Stopped Plasma Treatments For COVID Patients

May 3, 2021

May 3, 2021

Some U.S. hospitals are abandoning the use of convalescent plasma to treat severely ill COVID patients.

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