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[–] verboten ago  (edited ago)

There was a clinical trial with 35,322 transfused patients:

Transfusion of convalescent plasma with higher antibody levels to hospitalized COVID-19 patients significantly reduced mortality compared to transfusions with low antibody levels. Transfusions within three days of COVID-19 diagnosis yielded greater reductions in mortality.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.12.20169359v1.full.pdf

The FDA tried to stop the therapy anyway, just because they can do it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/blood-plasma-covid-19.html

So it seems that Trump convinced them not to stop it, and he does it without them starting a open war against him (it's still a cold war).

Reinfection was often in the news, it was always a redetection: the virus stayed in the body, but at levels that got undetected (so called "long haulers").

Edit:

This time it seems to be really a reinfection because they could compare the RNA of the 1st and 2nd infection. The immune system was strong enough to fight the virus so the 2nd infection was without symptoms, but the tests were so sensitive that they could find the virus anyway.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/24/first-covid-19-reinfection-documented-in-hong-kong-researchers-say/