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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

FDA Alters Blood Donor Eligibility Guidelines during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued four blood donor eligibility guidelines on April 2, 2020 to help alleviate…

April 7, 2020

Convalescent Plasma May be Beneficial to Treat COVID-19

COVID-19 has been spreading across the globe since December 2019 and is now a pandemic. With no vaccine or approved…

March 30, 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

National Survey Finds Stable Adverse Transfusion Reaction Rate in the U.S.

The 2017 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey (NBCUS) used a web-based survey of approximately 3,000 U.S. community-based and hospital-based…

March 11, 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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