Coronavirus: From Plasma Therapy To Hydroxychloroquine, a list of all COVID-19 therapies treatment which were discontinued.

It has been over a year since we have been fighting against the pandemic, with the surge only getting stronger. With no exact cure, medical experts are repurposing drugs and therapies to alleviate some of the symptoms associated with the disease. However, with almost minimal evidence, most of these treatments have been found to be majorly ineffective, and have been discontinued for use. Plasma therapy, which had been long pinned as a beneficial coronavirus 'treatment' therapy has now been dropped from clinical management guidelines, much to the ire of concerned families and patients. However, it's not the only treatment plan to have been backtracked. Over the course of the year, doctors have tried their hand on multiple therapies, but only some of them are consequently helpful. We detail you about all the therapies and treatment plans which were tried out, only to be discontinued later.

Why has plasma therapy been cancelled ????? Until recently, social media was flooded with demands of convalescent plasma from recovered COVID patients, which was presumed to be a life-saving treatment for moderate and severely ill COVID patients. However, the use and benefits of convalescent plasma in COVID recovery or plasma therapy have been found to be limited. Now, after several doctors and scientific experts wrote to the ICMR warning of its 'irrational' use, the apex medical body has officially delisted plasma therapy as a COVID treatment plan. The revision in guidelines comes after it was observed that plasma therapy did not benefit the speedier recovery of COVID-19 patients, and did not hold sufficient promise in reducing the progression of disease or fatalities. Most recently, in the letter marked to the ICMR and top doctors of the country, experts have also opinionated that plasma therapy could be 'irrational', show little to no promising evidence in benefitting COVID patients and added that misuse of antibodies could further 'raise the possibility of more virulent strains developing during the pandemic'. There have also been limitations surrounding its use- not every COVID patient can use it, neither can every recovered COVID patient donate it.