Blood Cancer, COVID-19 and Convalescent Plasma (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Blood Cancer, COVID-19 and Convalescent Plasma

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Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, holds a bag of convalescent plasma. He is an author on a new study that shows that such plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients can dramatically increase the likelihood of survival for blood cancer patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

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