One of the first recovered patients to donate his blood plasma said he feels "blessed" he is now healthy and can volunteer his antibodies to help others.
As patients with COVID-19 continue pouring into emergency departments and intensive care units across the nation, an old treatment that has been adapted for a new disease is being tested in New York.
The National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project is a consortium of more than 40 of the nation's top health institutions across 22 states looking to collect plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to assist in treating those currently ill with the disease or to perhaps prevent others, like front-line medical workers, from getting the virus at all.
On Friday, the FDA issued an updated set of guidelines reminding health care providers that more clinical trials must take place before"routinely administering" convalescent plasma to COVID-19 patients can begin. The Riemers heard about the project at Mount Sinai through a family friend. Danny Riemer said that the moment they were released from quarantine, he and his wife went to get tested for the program.
The researchers and practitioners who make up the National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project are working to determine which patients would be the best candidates to receive the convalescent plasma, said Dr. Michael Joyner, one of the project leaders, who is a professor of anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
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