Is Covid19 treated with blood transfusions? I hadn't heard anything about that

Mar 26, 2020
7:34:59am

Mister P All-American

And I'm not sure how it would help, but there is a big push for blood donations right now. Is this just the red cross and others taking advantage of a crisis to stock their shelves?

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Is Covid19 treated with blood transfusions? I hadn't heard anything about that

Mister P

3/26/20 7:34am

No it’s not. But nobody is donating blood now, so the Red Cross’s volumes are way down.

Virginia Ute

3/26/20 7:36am

That makes sense.

Mister P

3/26/20 7:55am

I read they are testing this right now. It's a practice that goes back centuries

flyzag

3/26/20 7:38am

Red blood cells, no. Plasma containing immunoglobulins donated from people who survived an infection - maybe. But the

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