CROWN HEIGHTS JOINS PLASMA ‘SAVE A LIFE’ INITIATIVE
Are you a recovered coronavirus patient? You can save lives! Join the community of COVID-19 survivors who are mobilizing to fight the coronavirus by attending a plasma testing drive.
The Crown Heights community, which has many residents who have contracted and recovered from the coronavirus, now has enormous potential to save lives by donating plasma!
Being that this can potentially save lives, this falls under the Halachic obligation of לא תעמוד על דם רעך, to do everything one possibly can to save another’s life. As per the ruling of the Crown Heights Rabonim, it is an obligation to get tested and donate plasma (if compatible).
With the recognition by the medical community that recovered COVID-19 patient blood plasma has the potential to save lives, Crown Medical PC, The Gedaliah Society, Hatzalah of Crown Heights, Kamin Health, and Lakewood Bikur Cholim, partnered with Mayo Clinic to offer COVID-19 IGG antibody testing for the purpose of identifying candidates in our community eligible to donate plasma.
The plasma kits are provided by the Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s premier medical institutions, and their tests should not be associated with many labs that are offering tests that are questionable.
It is important to note that becoming a donor due to high antibody levels does not allow you to conclude that you are safe. Please continue to follow the guidelines and instructions being set forth by The Gedaliah Society in conjunction with Dr. Rosen.
Please join this mitzvah and register HERE to become a potential blood plasma donor and save someone’s life.
Criteria:
1. Donor must be 18 or older
2. For female donors: Nonpregnant female with only one or no prior pregnancy
3. Must have had symptoms of COVID-19
4. Must be symptom-free for at least 7 days
Opportunities to help in other ways! Medical (phlebotomists, nurses, paramedics) and nonmedical volunteers needed on Tuesday from 11am-7pm. Please click here if you’re available to volunteer.
Testing will be held this Tuesday, 4 Iyar, April 28th, from 12-6pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom – 667 Eastern Parkway.
The blood drawing stations will have separate areas for men and women. All social distancing rules will be strictly enforced. Please come with a mask and gloves.
NO WALK-INS WILL BE ALLOWED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
This drive is BY APPOINTMENT ONLY!
Drive in honor of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, OBM
This means that those of us who are mothers of more than one child cannot donate plasma even if we had Covid19?
Yes ,you understood correctly
Do you only want volunteers who have previously been infected with Covid and are better?
Criteria:
1. Donor must be 18 or older
2. For female donors: Nonpregnant female with only one or no prior pregnancy
3. Must have had symptoms of COVID-19
4. Must be symptom-free for at least 7 days
I meant volunteers to help out at the event, not to get tested
You can volunteer for the event if you haven’t had the virus. They are asking that people who are sick don’t come to the event at all. Think about all the essential workers who are going out right now, not all of them had the virus just be careful, wear a mask and you should be fine
Can I still donate if I only had other symptoms but no fever…? And I am symptom free for 14 days…
3. Must have had symptoms of COVID-19
4. Must be symptom-free for at least 7 days
What if someone lost their sense of smell and taste, and had minor symptoms, but no fever?
Is loss of taste or smell enough to qualify? I didn’t get a fever or cough.
I didn’t have any symptoms but everyone in my household had covid, does that mean I could have the anti bodies, and can I donate?
On the form it says “real symptoms” like fever. What about other symptoms?
B”H
The Criteria say you must be 18 or older, but the application says you can NOT be over 65. So the Criteria should state “Between the ages of 18 and 65.” Thank you.
If I still can’t taste or smell, but have/had no other symptoms, can I donate? From what I’ve heard, loss of taste/smell can linger…
When filling out the form, this is one of the questions that is asked.
I certify that I: had real symptoms, like fever over 99°F or loss of smell or taste”
Just curious: Why does it make a difference if someone was pregnant more than once?
Women exposed to fetal white blood cells can form antibodies that can be dangerous to transfusion patients potentially creating a lethal lung condition called TRALI. Typically it takes three pregnancies but they have been found in women with two pregnancies and hence the restriction.