Covid-19 survivors are donating blood plasma to help seriously ill patients fight the coronavirus
By Amy Dockser Marcus April 1, 2020 5:30 am ET Andrew Sherman, a Covid-19 survivor, is finally starting to feel better. One of the first things he did during his recovery: volunteer to donate blood plasma to help seriously ill patients fight the disease.
“The biggest problem is not the lack of donors,” said Arturo Casadevall, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, and one of the organizers of the national project. “It is the logistics of figuring out how people who want to participate can actually donate.” SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS How comfortable would you be with health treatments that are experimental? Does a pandemic make you more or less comfortable? Join the conversation below.
Chaim Lebovits, who is working with nearly 50 rabbis in the New York area to identify recovered patients, was at a synagogue on Tuesday in New Rochelle, N.Y., site of an early outbreak, watching as people arrived to be tested as potential donors. He said hundreds of people had volunteered, responding to emails sent from rabbis and requests on community What’sApp groups.
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