The United States Food and Drug Administration has given emergency authorisation for the use of plasma to treat coronavirus patients.
The technique uses antibody-rich blood plasma from people who have recovered from the disease, and has already been used on over 70,000 people in the US.
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President Donald Trump said the treatment could reduce deaths by 35%.
It comes a day after he accused the FDA of impeding the rollout of vaccines and therapeutics for political reasons.
