Blood Plasma Provides Possible Therapy for Covid-19 Patients

It was a Saturday night in February. A group of friends shared food and drinks at a tropical-themed party in Seattle. They wore Hawaiian shirts and sipped cocktails made with pineapple and coconut. A few days later, more than a dozen of the partygoers would fall sick with the flu-like symptoms of COVID-19.

Elizabeth Schneider – a normally-healthy, 37-year-old bioengineer – was one of them. "I just thought I had the flu," she told FRONTLINE. It took her two weeks, but she ultimately recovered.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/convalescent-plasma-therapy-coronavirus-covid-19/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ICYMI&utm_content=050320