Vitalant is seeking plasma convalescent plasma donors

Convalescent plasma can help people to recover from Covid-19.

Covid-19..

There s a new way for you to help others who are fighting to survive this virus... simply by donating blood plasma.

Action news now reporter ana torrea shows us how it works.

Right now: vitalant is searching for people who survived coronavirus.

Take so* trt joe ayer senior manager of recruitment, vitalant right now we're looking for convalescent plasma donors, those are people who have had covid-19 and they have the antibodies from covid-19, they've survived and we want them to come in and donate their plasma to others who are fighting covid-19.

That's because the convalescent plasma could help people who are still battling covid-19.

Take so* trt:10 joe ayer senior manager of recruitment, vitalant so your body uses antibodies to fight off disease and this is like injection a power boost of antibodies into their system to help fight this ana stand u* trt:23 ana torrea atorreanews people who want to donate plasma would sit in this chair right over here, they would then have a needle inserted into their arm, that needle would then be connected to a long line of tubes, into this centrifuge machine right over here, the centrifuge machine would separate the blood and plasma the plasma would go up to this rack and the blood would go back to the donor.

And people tell me: it's important more than ever to donate.

Take so* trt:15 rachel markham donor i'm imagining there's a lot of people who might need that at this time, especially if they are in the hospital or something and it doesn't really matter to me if it goes to the covid-19 patients or somebody else, i know there's a big need.

Vitalant says: they've seen several people come into to donate their plasma.

Take so* trt:03 joe ayer senior manager of recruitment, vitalant we have had several come in over the last month or 2 but they're always looking for more people to help in the fight against coronavirus reporting in redding, ana torrea, action news now coverage you can count on.

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