The first patient in India to get Convalescent Plasma Therapy for Covid-19 recovered fully and left Delhi’s Max Hospital on April 26, 2020.
Naturally, the establishment will have none of this. What if Indians get wind of the fact that Covid-19 is perfectly treatable and that we don’t have to collapse the economy and starve the masses to contain it?
Thus, the health ministry does a screeching U-turn:
With the plasma therapy gaining a lot of traction as a possible cure for coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday clarified that it is at an experimental stage and there is no evidence yet to support that it can be used as treatment for COVID-19. “Till the effectiveness of this mode of treatment is scientifically proven, its application except for research and clinical trial is illegal,” Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal said.
https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/as-recovered-patients-become-donors-health-ministry-says-plasma-therapy-is-at-experimental-stage-right-now-1672272-2020-04-29
That’s a bit different from its previous nod to CPT:
..it was a big day for Gujarat when two institutions in Ahmedabad – SVP Hospital and BJ Medical College affiliated with Civil Hospital – got the nod from the Indian Council for Medical Research to start the Convalescent Plasma Therapy for Covid patients.
CP Therapy has been in use for over a century. It was used during the 1918 Spanish flu and used successfully for the SARS outbreak, the MERS outbreak, and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Turkey has used CPT to turn the tide on its Covid-19 outbreak.
The FDA has approved its use for Covid-19.
In 2014, the WHO recommended CP Therapy for the treatment of Ebola.
A search of the term on the WHO. website leads to 6 results, 5 pertaining to the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
The 6th item, “Novel Coronavirus summary and literature update – as of 8 May 2013,” actually recommends the use of CP Therapy as “the most promising” available treatment for a contemporary outbreak of novel coronavirus.
An international network of clinical experts has been convened to discuss therapeutic options. It concluded that in the absence of clinical evidence for disease-specific interventions, convalescent plasma is the most promising therapy. A memo containing advice for setting up international or regional serum centers, to obtain and share convalescent plasma, has been circulated by WHO to ministries of health in affected countries.
But, for this outbreak of the coronavirus – Covid-19 – the WHO has been remarkably silent about CPT. A google search for the WHO and CPT turned up only a reference to CPT during the Ebola outbreak.
What gives? Why would WHO not at least suggest that countries get and share plasma, as it suggested before?
Question: Has India’s Covid-19 task-force been unduly influenced by the WHO or similar globalist organizations in reversing its recommendation of CPT?