Govt removes plasma therapy as treatment for Covid-19 among adults

In the revised clinical guidelines for management of adult Covid-19 patients, use of convalescent plasma therapy has been removed even as an 'off label treatment. The decision to remove it from the guidelines comes in the backdrop of some clinicians and scientists writing to Principal Scientific Advisor K VijayRaghavan cautioning against the "irrational and non-scientific use" of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 in the country.