Dr. Beth Shaz, chief medical and scientific officer at the New York Blood Center, joined "The Story" Wednesday night to discuss "promising" efforts to treat coronavirus using the blood plasma of recovered patients."Right now we have a handful [of donors]," Shaz told host Martha MacCallum. "You have to be at least 14 days after [having] symptoms. With the first cases in the New York area [confirmed] on March 1, we are just beginning to get there."Prior to bringing Shaz on the show, MacCallum spotlighted a New York Post report about Long Island mother Diana Berrent, who became one of the first people in New York to donate her blood plasma for treatment efforts.
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