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The Maldonado Blood Center reported that people recovered from COVID-19 who have already been vaccinated against the virus may be donors of convalescent plasma.
“Contrary to what has been used, the updating of the procedures in the processes of the fight against COVID-19, today allows to break down the impediment to those vaccinated from being donors of convalescent plasma; this will allow to have a greater number of donors, to obtain and apply plasma from recovered ”.
According to information from the Hemocenter, 43% of rejections are to women who have ever had a pregnancy. Then, 34% of the rejections corresponded to people already vaccinated. The remaining 23% responded to tattoos, piercing or medication.
Recently, the country reported that the possibility of using plasma from recovered that had already been given some of the doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 was being analyzed. On April 24, infectologists, immunologists, hematologists and hemotherapists, among other professionals who make up a committee under the orbit of the Administration of State Health Services (ASSE), will begin to study whether it is possible that those patients recovered and who already were vaccinated against COVID-19 (that is, they have been discharged for more than three months), they are also plasma donors.
Why donate plasma? Plasma, according to the Hemocenter, allows increase the immune response to infection. In this way, the disease can be shorter and less severe.
According to studies cited by the Hemocentro, 70% of the things that receive plasma have an improvement.
In turn, according to what El País reported, 28% of people who were infected with coronavirus have the possibility of donating plasma to infected patients.
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