Recovered Patients

Recovered Patients

County 689 cases and charleston county has 441.

Calling all of those recovered covid-19 patient it is showing promsis to improve but it will take plasma to make it happen.

Brooke, we understand they are desperate for donor volunteers to step up and make it happen right now.

>> that's right.

The clinical trial utilizing plasma from recovered covid-19 patient actually helping current covid-19 patients right here in the lowcountry but with very specific list of criteria to meet for these volunteer donors, it has been not an easy task getting them through the door.

That is exactly why teams from blood connection and roper st.

Francis coming through to get volunteers through the door.

Physician at roper contacted 200 or so patients of that been diagnosed with their system.

So far two-thirds of them are strongly interested in donating.

The organization says stepping up could save a life.

>> but we need to early ration what is a precious resource.

This trial looks at patients who are in very high risk of progressing to severe disease but we want to intervene early during the course of what we call viral replication.

That's when the virus is starting to take over and before the patient become well.

>> what are the qualifications for donating?

You must have prove you did test positive with pcr test and recovered covid-19 patient and 28 days out from recovery and be symptom free.

You can contact the blood connection for more information i put that contact information on both my twitter and facebook pages.

Coming up later this morning joe cunningham will actually be here at the blood connection's north charleston location to lead by example as recovered covid-19 patient.

He will be donating plasma here around 9:30.

We will hear more from his message later on tonight.

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