Survivors of COVID-19 who produce lots of disease-fighting antibodies carry within them a weapon in the fight to prevent severe complications from the coronavirus. Their antibody-rich blood plasma helps block the virus, when transfused early into newly diagnosed patients and may even be helpful against infections with new variants of the coronavirus.
As a result, when an outbreak caused by a new variant of the coronavirus occurs in a community, its survivors could potentially become the medicine chest for others who fall sick, a New Jersey researcher said.
“They essentially have the treatment for the variants in their body,” said Dr. Michele Donato, lead researcher at Hackensack University Medical Center for a group of studies about COVID survivors’ blood plasma. “The plasma contains the antibodies of the virus that’s in the community at that time.”
A master plan is the document that guides the growth and development of a municipality.
During the Jan. 19 meeting of the mayor and council, attorney Michele Donato, who represents the Allentown Planning Board, provided an update to the governing body and members of the public on various aspects of Allentown’s development and some of the ordinances that govern development.
The council meeting was conducted in a virtual manner during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“Andrew Thomas of Thomas Planning Associates reviewed many of the borough’s ordinances and the Planning Board has acted to bring your ordinances up to date,” Donato told Mayor Thomas Fritts and members of the council. “Board members worked on this (project) for meeting after meeting.”
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