By COLlive reporter
39 Chassidic members of the Crown Heights Jewish community traveled to New Brunswick, New Jersey, Wednesday, to donate plasma which may help coronavirus patients.
The group traveled to the New York Blood Center in New Brunswick, an hour from New York, to donate plasma after being informed that they were eligible to donate following a testing drive in Crown Heights.
This follows a group of 17 men and women who traveled from Crown Heights to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to donate plasma as well.
Nearly 1,000 people turned out for the antibody testing drive in Crown Heights last week.
Many residents in the Crown Heights community had contracted and recovered from the coronavirus, so they may be eligible to join the drive to donate plasma which can potentially save the life of a coronavirus patient.
The COVID-19 IGG antibody testing drive was organized by Crown Medical PC, The Gedaliah Society, Hatzalah of Crown Heights, Kamin Health, and Lakewood Bikur Cholim, partnering with the Mayo Clinic.
The plasma kits were provided by the Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s premier medical institutions.
The Crown Heights event joins other testing events in Jewish communities in Flatbush, Boro Park, Lakewood and Baltimore, in which thousands of Orthodox Jews lined up to donate plasma.
We’re so proud of u!!!!!!!!!
Kol Hakovod to Ruvi S for always taking charge.
Nice to see that bochrim are doing this too 🙂
Kol Hakovod to those who made the trip. Please find a closer place, you will have hundreds of people donating!