Families are posting pleas on Facebook groups for patients who have recovered from Covid-19, asking them to donate plasma so that seriously ill patients can get experimental treatment
Before seriously ill Covid-19 patients can get an experimental treatment called convalescent plasma therapy, their families have to do just one thing: find the donors.
Even while supporting very ill loved ones, family members search for potential donors and help them navigate donating at a blood bank. The hope is that antibody-rich plasma from a recovered Covid-19 patient, when transfused into a seriously ill patient, will help fight the new coronavirus that scientists have barely begun to understand.
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