Some recovered patients are testing positive for Covid-19 long after they are symptom-free, making them ineligible to donate blood plasma to help those who are severely ill with the disease
Close to four weeks after recovering from a Covid-19 infection, Jennie Novakovic went to her local hospital hoping to donate blood plasma to help severely ill patients.“I assumed I was fine,” said Ms. Novakovic, who got the Covid-19 swab test in.
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