Recovered coronavirus patient Cai Taoying, who is also a nurse from Hankou Hospital, donates plasma at Wuhan Blood Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 17, 2020.(Xinhua/Cai Yang)
Hope transmits through plasma! Cured COVID-19 patients donate plasma to the critically ill patients as several patients have showed improved clinical symptoms after receiving plasma treatment.
BEIJING Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cured patients who were infected with COVID-19 are called upon to donate plasma as initial results had indicated the effectiveness of convalescent plasma-derived therapeutic products in curing infected patients in severe and critical conditions.
Donors must be recovered patients who are up to the standard for being discharged from hospital. Only plasma will be collected while red blood cells, white blood cells and blood platelets will be transfused back into the donor's body.
Some recovered patients regard the donation as a way to pay back to the society after they received timely and effective treatment.
A recovered coronavirus patient from Huanan seafood market holds a certificate for blood donation while donating plasma at Wuhan Blood Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 17, 2020.(Xinhua/Cai Yang)
Donated plasma of a recovered coronavirus patient is seen at Wuhan Blood Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
A recovered coronavirus patient from Huanan seafood market holds a certificate for blood donation while donating plasma at Wuhan Blood Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
Recovered coronavirus patient from Huanan seafood market donates plasma at Wuhan Blood Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 17, 2020.(Xinhua/Cai Yang)
A cured coronavirus patient donates plasma at Hainan Blood Center in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 17, 2020. (Photo by Zhang Liyun/Xinhua)
A cured coronavirus patient donates plasma at Chongqing Blood Center in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Feb. 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)■
