KENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER INTERVIEW

KENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER INTERVIEW

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Today ... all i ... wanted plasma from a color- coded ... patient treatment for the source ... of nearly l ... country belt ... right here.

We got many brave with the director of marketing at the kentucky bloods are joining us by phone this morning ... to explain more thank you so much for me ... .

Many for joining us.

We reall appreciate it happening ... .

Last week we reported that th kentucky blood center and baptist health, education, healthcare, all partnering up i this ... effort tells more about how ... this is working what's being done with the ... ownership ... we are partnering with ... really any of our hostile partners right now to try to ... drop my office recovered, 19 patient ... always been fortunate enough to ... have done a department come from four different patients are ready connecting taken to local hot at all ... to try to help critically ill patients.

The ... belief is that the antibodies ... that the recovered patient has built in their ipod.

My will actually help ... the critically outpatient start to recover ... questioning why ... we ... plasma versus ... the anything else ... you know i believe the antibody within the last night and ... so they had done the treatment before with the bowline ... cars and so they had ... repacked evidence that the treatment would ... work ... experimental and obviously we can't ... nearly .2 ... .

This being something that's going to make that patient better ... on ... with the first transfusion that within a couple of weeks ago ... .

The immediate ride back we go from the hospital with that the patient had not ... .

Or got any worse, which at that point when someone critically all ... is actually a great time ... .

I'm so now we don't know ... in the long run.

How this is going to ... layout that we know that there's hopefully a benefit to the ... patient and so we might do everything we can to help the half ... that old ... eye with their patients who are ... suffering the most ... you mentioned four people had already ... donated ... and when that happened we didn' have as many patients recoverin at this point we have more patients recovering ... .

How can we see that expectation kind of rise as mor people are able ... to become eligible to donate ... absolutely are.

You are helping everything happily more people entering that down the ... free ... what were telling people is what if you had a positive cover 19 had absolutely, on our web site ... .

Click on our covered banner and platform for complex implied ... donation ... if you have a negative path already disproven that your i'm recovered from the disease, all the better.

Please do that toda is the focus we can start drawing from immediately ... on but you haven't had a positive test for encouraging ... to go on there and ... obviously things are moving pretty rapidly ... , but they are working to develop an antibody test that would actually be able to have ... the patient are the recovered patient ... lied ... to see if they did in fact have coded even if they couldn't get it ... and so are hoping to start collecting those folks.

Information is ... also went antibody to ... the available ... we had a much larger pool of pop ... apartment owners ... the ... this ... donating and what that entails ... .

Immediately ... donations not typically something people come here for we typically do whole blood we do platelet ... double red blood out so ... this is a little bit different and were kind of doing it.

I'm at the actual operation ... that ... what would happen.

I said people would reach out to us with interest.

We've also been ... the hospital help ... us identify patient ... on our doctor, our medical director here dr. williams that ... i can't ... screening with the person you have to fill past regular blood donation ... screening standard ... and then we have to obtain a negative ... path ... so what we been able to do work with the hospital but need the ... to conduct another swab of the patient if they haven't had one to ... ensure 100% that their negative before you bring them into our center ... on an apartment donation very similar to a platelet donation.

It ... is machine ... .

I called avery said ... .

And the machine actually ... tracks the earth and lied take out the ... department it needs actually return the patient's red blood cell ... them so it ... actually a profit.

That is ... i just left ... the pleading to the patient.

They get fluid.

While there ... god doing the ... donation and the donation typically takes less than an hour ... on so longer ... .

I donation process that whole blood by ... certainly ... most people have said it very easy process for the ... many on top of all this going on see things are constantly changing because of the virus you guys doing the plasma ... you're still in need of ... blood donations as well.

That's still a critical need correct ... and we are not in a critical need ... only because we have had such a great response from ... kentucky and across the state ... .

I blood donation you we canceled ... upwards of 200 drive ... and we were very ... turned ... and we set up the call out and people heard the call and we had ... amazing numbers of people coming in to donate blood when i would say that with you blood has a shelf life and ... able, making appointments and coming in to donate every day i'm ... and then those people who donated when all of this first happened in march will be eligible again in the middle of ... may.

In the end of may.

Everyone ... spoke ... come back.

It's really ... blood donation ... it ... to be successful.

We need to se regular ... folks coming ... periodically to donate blood so were really hoping that all the ... new donors.

They came for the ... first time in march ... .

Come back and donate blood again and help us through the summer, which is always at halftime president certainly ... the state of the world right now we have ... no guarantees.

So we would love ... eligible to back out ... if you're eligible.

We did they make an appointment for your quick ... half online in and come to donate when you're eligible ... things are just ... changing so quickly and ... we are now ... just over a month into the ... first ... taste of the hearing kentucky ... revised ... to adopt new technology and new ... changes in the ... i would say it every day ... in different i feel like ... we all could say that the of work on ... .

We we really like that that work ... very cautious and we were expecting major blood shortages ... and honestly we ... overwhelmed and touched by ... people who are willing to come do something in ... the faith of the national disaster on ... but yes i mean every day.

Changes ... , the fda is kind of relaxing some ... restrictions on blood donation ... which is great if you allow a lot more donors to come out.

Th problem is we dedicate our software ... rated to allow those people to the process so ... there is time something new every day.

We ... unite ... them on the tips of my code every day we what might happen ... the really great thing like you said it just ... deposit ... donation is fascinating and it just ... here on saturday during a donation ... really ... touching that the people who had fought the ... and ... now had ... done well and then ... the first thing they want to do is build a get back to people ... many think you so much we love the ... time to chat with us we think is ... no problem.

Thank you so much ... the ... other adapting ... or constantly changing the ... warning, ... when michigan to begin connecting what has ... their own ... employees and patient ... supporting abc news for the study of covert 1990 ... largest of the ... kind down while at ... experimental treatments are underway.

There still no approved back ... the ... to treat coronavirus, so ...