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Share [Findings] Convalescent plasma helps Syrian hamsters fight SARS-CoV-2.—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 Early in vivo trials on Syrian hamster models found that those treated with COV44-79 recovered from moderate to severe symptoms within 3-7 days, and those treated with COV44-62 recovered in 5-7 days.—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 To design a new potential Covid treatment, researchers at the Rosalind Franklin Institute at Oxford University took advantage of the biological quirks of an unlikely animal pair: the llama and the Syrian hamster.—Grace Huckins, Wired, 29 Sep. 2021
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