Donating plasma is mostly a safe process, but there can be side effects. Plasma is a component of your blood. To donate plasma, blood is drawn from your body and processed through a machine that ...

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Blood plasma from recovered patients is a century-old treatment in medicine, and physicians hope it may provide a stopgap treatment before drugs or a vaccine are developed.

Thousands of people received convalescent plasma as an experimental treatment for Covid. A new study shows that it works — but only when given within a few days of the onset of illness.