Have you recovered from COVID-19? If so, the San Diego Blood Bank needs your help.
As coronavirus cases continue to climb, spurring rising hospitalization numbers, the Blood Bank’s stores of convalescent plasma are approaching critically low levels.
Convalescent plasma is taken from people who have recovered from COVID-19. When infused into patients still battling the disease, it can help bolster their immune response.
Floating in blood plasma are antibodies, a type of protein the body uses to hunt down invaders like viruses and then mark them for destruction.
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After someone defeats COVID-19, the antibodies used during that defense linger.