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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

Decreases in U.S. Blood Donors Despite Increases in Eligible Donors

Although the number of RBC and whole blood cell transfusions has decreased by approximately 10% over the last decade, there…

December 12, 2019

Urgent Global Need of Blood Products

The current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines recommend 10-20 blood donations per 1000 individuals, but these guidelines do not take…

October 29, 2019

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