'The idea that contracting this virus would allow me to do some good in this world gave me a light to focus on at the end of a dark tunnel,' KayleeHartung writes. 'I was determined to find a way to donate.'
A new national program seeks to inject hundreds of the sickest COVID-19 patients with blood plasma from those who have recovered from the virus.ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung was diagnosed with COVID-19 six weeks ago. She’s now recovered from the virus. She shares her first-person account of donating convalescent plasma to help others in their fight against the coronavirus.attacked me, the hardest blow it dealt me was the helplessness it made me feel.
Isolated at home, the idea that contracting this virus would allow me to do some good in this world gave me a light to focus on at the end of a dark tunnel. I was determined to find a way to donate.Three weeks ago I started calling hospitals and blood banks in the Los Angeles area. Every day the death toll is rising. People are in desperate need of help. I figured they would be thrilled hear from me.
ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung donates convalescent plasma at the Red Cross after recovering from COVID-19, in Los Angeles, April 22, 2020.So I filled out the American Red Cross online donor request form, a very simple questionnaire asking if you were diagnosed with a COVID-19 lab test and the date of your last symptoms. And then I waited. Quarantined at home, I had nothing but time. A few days went by so I filled out the form again. The system is new.
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