CORONAVIRUS LATEST: • American Red Cross will soon use antibody tests to ID plasma donors • Pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 183,000 people across the globe. • Over 2.6 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
3:30 a.m.: American Red Cross will soon use antibody tests to ID plasma donors
"That completely changes the landscape," Dr. Pampee Young, chief medical officer for the American Red Cross, told ABC News in an interview Wednesday. "Qualifying and getting the right donors into our centers to donate is one of the biggest hurdles in this in this endeavor," Young said. Wearing a homemade mask, Kathy Verhoff of Kalida, Ohio, donates blood as phlebotomist Jacqueline Line looks on at the American Red Cross in Lima, Ohio, on April 7, 2020. Approximately 36,000 units of red blood cells are needed every day in the United States.More than 30,000 people have requested to donate on the American Red Cross website, but only 2 to 3% actually qualify and meet the current criteria set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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