The coronavirus has infected more than 1.2 million people in the U.S. Now, scientists, researchers and pharmaceutical firms are scrambling for blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors — in hopes of developing potential treatments.
"We have an obligation to protect and save lives," Lebovits said.
Roughly 10,000 women could donate up to four times each — generating some 30,000 liters of plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 that could be directed to the for-profit collectors to make hyperimmune globulin, Joyner estimated. That's enough for the companies to get started.In the future, other groups deemed ineligible to provide convalescent plasma for transfusion, out of concern about disease transmission, could be diverted for hyperimmune globulin creation, he said.
"Ways to facilitate these donations and recommendations for how to allocate donors to one donation stream or the other are still in progress," said Natalie de Vane, a spokesperson for CSL Behring, a biopharmaceutical company based in King of Prussia, Penn.a coalition of six companies developing a single, unbranded hyperimmune globulin product that could treat COVID-19.
"We don't view it as competition," said Chris Healey, president of corporate affairs at Grifols, a Spanish pharmaceutical company that has receivedfrom the U.S. Department of Defense to develop its own hyperimmune globulin product."We're all pointed in the same direction."
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