There has been an explosion in the number of healthcare institutions across the world scrambling to try Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) for treatment of Covid-19.

Pakistan has perhaps been a couple of steps ahead of the rest of the world, with CPT beginning to be regarded not only by the public at large, but also by the medical community as the magic elixir against Covid-19.

However, when it comes to non-standard forms of treatment whose scientific merit has yet to be proven anywhere in the world, caution is in order. In our efforts to combat the disease, we must not lose sight of the fact that this is an experimental therapy, approved all over the world only within strict research parameters, and is not an over the counter drug like paracetamol, which anyone with a fever can have.

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