{"id":864596,"date":"2020-04-02T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=864596"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:56:19","slug":"blood-center-participating-in-investigational-use-per-physicians-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=864596","title":{"rendered":"Blood Center Participating in Investigational Use per Physicians Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/Carter-BloodCare-bus-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-655845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/Carter-BloodCare-bus-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/Carter-BloodCare-bus-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/Carter-BloodCare-bus.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Carter BloodCare is working with doctors and hospitals to facilitate the collection of convalescent plasma.  The FDA say&#8217;s that it is possible that convalescent plasma that contains antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) might be effective against the infection.&#8221;<br \/>\nCarter BloodCare has specialized equipment and the staff with expertise to collect plasma from individuals identified by their doctors as having a suitable concentration of antibodies causing the coronavirus.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to satisfying the blood center&#8217;s donor criteria, these individuals must also satisfy additional FDA criteria that include resolution of symptoms for at least 14 days and negative results for COVID-19 on sophisticated testing. Carter BloodCare says they do not recruit these convalescent plasma donors; they are identified by physicians at area hospitals. <\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in participating in the program, you can find information from UT Southwestern Medical Center by clicking the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsouthwestern.edu\/covid-19\/about-virus-donate-plasma\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.utsouthwestern.edu\/covid-19\/about-virus-donate-plasma\/<\/a>. You can also contact your doctor or hospital where you were diagnosed and\/or treated for coronavirus\/COVID-19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Carter BloodCare is working with doctors and hospitals to facilitate the collection of convalescent plasma. The FDA say&#8217;s that it is possible that convalescent plasma that contains antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) might be effective against the infection.&#8221; Carter BloodCare has specialized equipment and the staff with expertise to collect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=864596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood Center Participating in Investigational Use per Physicians Request<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":655845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 22:50:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864606,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864596\/revisions\/864606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}