FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma To increase access to COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) use, President Trump, in conjunction with the U.S. FDA, announced Emergency Use… August 25, 2020
Restrictive Transfusion Strategies Safe for Extremely Low Birth-Weight Infants Most extremely low birth-weight (ELBW) infants develop anemia, which can result in severe brain injury and/or impaired oxygen supply to… August 19, 2020
Positive Coombs Tests and RBC Transfusions in Patients with COVID-19 During the early outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy, medical doctors and researchers observed a high frequency of positive direct antiglobulin… August 12, 2020
Convalescent Plasma Is Safe and Likely Efficacious for Patients with COVID-19 There are limited therapeutic options to treat COVID-19, and COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) is currently one of the most common… August 4, 2020
Studies Find Variable Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Responses Three recent studies have analyzed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among individuals with asymptomatic and mild SARS-CoV-2 infections, and they have found that… July 29, 2020
mRNA-1273 Vaccine Safe and Induces anti-SARS-CoV-2 Immune Responses Using prior knowledge of the importance of the coronavirus spike proteins in pathogenesis and immunity as well as the SARS-CoV-2… July 22, 2020
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
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Many patients with severe COVID-19 deteriorate rapidly when their immune systems become hyperactive, also known as cytokine storm. No effective… July 1, 2020
ABO Blood Group Associated with COVID-19 Severity It has long been known that different blood antigens may carry risks or protection depending on the disease, and coronaviruses… June 23, 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
