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“Lynbrook Woman Once 'Gasping for Air' Now Recovering After plasma Transfusion” - David Olson

  • Newsday
  • New York, NY
  • (May 17, 2020)

One Mount Sinai patient describes how convalescent plasma works. Jennifer Woodard had spent nearly a week at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside with COVID-19 and wasn’t getting any better. Then she received a transfusion of blood plasma donated by someone who had recovered from the disease. “The next morning, I woke up and I literally felt like someone had given me a burst of energy,” she said.

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