There is a call to action from the American Red Cross. The nonprofit is asking people who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate convalescent plasma. "We assume that plasma will have antibodies against the virus in it," said Dr. Randal Covin of the American Red Cross Pacific Northwest Region. "The hope is we transfuse those antibodies into a person with a current infection and hasn't made their own antibodies."
Dr. Covin thinks this will boost a patient's ability to fight off the coronavirus while they wait for their own immune system to make its own antibodies.
As promising as this sounds, it is only an experimental treatment for COVID-19 patients.
"Their doctors would have to apply to get what we call an investigational new drug application, approved by the FDA, then their patient could get convalescent plasma," said Dr. Covin.
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