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Updated: 4:51 PM EST December 14, 2020
Editor s note: The headline on this story has been updated to note you can still donate regular source plasma after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, but not convalescent plasma - which is specifically meant to treat coronavirus patients.
A VERIFY viewer asked the team if someone would “still be able to donate plasma after getting the covid vaccine?”
Convalescent plasma treatments allow doctors to take plasma from someone who already had COVID-19 and transfer their antibodies to a patient who recently contracted the virus.
THE QUESTION:
THE ANSWER:
No. Due to the vaccines being new, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has stated that vaccine recipients should not be convalescent plasma donors for now.
Updated: 4:51 PM EST December 14, 2020
Editor s note: The headline on this story has been updated to note you can still donate regular source plasma after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, but not convalescent plasma - which is specifically meant to treat coronavirus patients.
A VERIFY viewer asked the team if someone would “still be able to donate plasma after getting the covid vaccine?”
Convalescent plasma treatments allow doctors to take plasma from someone who already had COVID-19 and transfer their antibodies to a patient who recently contracted the virus.
THE QUESTION:
THE ANSWER:
No. Due to the vaccines being new, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has stated that vaccine recipients should not be convalescent plasma donors for now.