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Red Cross asking fully recovered COVID-19 patients to donate plasma

Getting paid for plasma: Repeat donors earning cash for blood
Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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A young woman donates blood at the blood donation service Hamburg on June 8, 2011 in Harburg, Germany. Hospitals and the Red Cross in northern Germany have appealed to the public for blood donations as a result of the current outbreak of enterohemorrhagic E. coli, also known as the EHEC bacteria. With at least 2,200 people afflicted by the infection, and approximately 500 suffering from the HUS complication from EHEC that attacks the kidneys, hospitals have seen an explosive growth in their need for donated blood plasma. The EHEC outbreak has thus far killed at least 22 people in Europe's deadliest recorded outbreak of E. coli.
Getting paid for plasma: Repeat donors earning cash for blood
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NEW YORK (WKBW) — The Red Cross is seeking patients who have fully recovered from COVID-19 to donate plasma to help current patients who are seriously ill.

"People who have fully recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies in their plasma that can attack the virus," the Red Cross' website says. "This convalescent plasma is being evaluated as treatment for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections, or those judged by a healthcare provider to be at high risk of progression to severe or life-threatening disease.

For more information or to see if you qualify to donate you can visit the Red Cross website here.

Copyright 2020 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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