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Practical Guidance for Blood Supply and Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Researchers in Europe and Canada reviewed more than 9,000 publications about COVID-19 and identified 414 papers relevant to blood collections,…

July 15, 2020

Pathogen Reduction Reduces SARS-CoV-2 in Plasma and Whole Blood

Similar to other respiratory viruses, it is suspected that SARS-CoV-2 is not transfusion-transmitted.  Nevertheless, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in plasma,…

June 17, 2020

COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Transfusion Services: Elective Surgeries Resume, Convalescent Plasma Use Increases, and Blood Supply Drops to Critical Levels

Based on the AABB COVID-19 Weekly Hospital Transfusion Survey, which collected data from 96 hospitals in 35 states between May…

June 2, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Titers and Qualifying Donors for Convalescent Plasma

With no vetted therapies or vaccines for COVID-19 and almost a million confirmed cases in the United States alone, the…

April 29, 2020

Convalescent Plasma Donors Needed for COVID-19

Hospitals and blood collection centers are working with the US Government collaboratively to collect convalescent plasma from patients who have…

April 22, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Found in Blood—Is it Transfusion Transmissible?

Researchers in both China and South Korea have identified SARS-CoV-2 in routine blood donations. In China, 2,430 blood donations (1,656…

April 15, 2020

Blood Use and Supply during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Lessons from Seattle

Physicians and colleagues from the Transfusion Medicine and Hematology Divisions at the University of Washington in Seattle and the local…

March 24, 2020

COVID-19 Pandemic Leading to Blood Supply Shortages

The worldwide pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease (or coronavirus disease 2019), is disrupting every aspect…

March 17, 2020

Risk of Transfusion Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Is Only Theoretical

The novel coronavirus that was first reported in December 2019 from Wuhan, China has been renamed SARS-CoV-2, and causes the…

March 4, 2020

Minimal Residual Risk for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C from Blood Products

Based on screening results of over 58 million blood donations from the American Red Cross from more than 14.7 million…

February 28, 2020

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