The
Transfusion News newsletter appeared in my in-box today… is COVID-19 transmissible
via a blood transfusion?
| SARS-CoV-2 Found in Blood—Is it Transfusion Transmissible? | |
 April 15, 2020Researchers in both China and South Korea have identified SARS-CoV-2 in routine blood donations. In China, 2,430 blood donations (1,656 platelet and 774 whole blood) collected between January 25, 2020 and March 4, 2020 were screened by real-time reverse transcription PCR for SARS-CoV-2; in addition, almost 5,000 samples collected between December 21, 2019 and January 22, 2020 were retrospectively tested. [Read More] | |
| FDA Alters Blood Donor Eligibility Guidelines during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency | |
 April 7, 2020The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued four blood donor eligibility guidelines on April 2, 2020 to help alleviate blood shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic—one on alternative procedures for blood and blood components collected during the COVID-19 public health emergency and three others on HIV, malaria, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases (CJD). [Read More] |
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