He may never know if “convalescent plasma” helped save him, but he does know that his wife’s plea for blood donations from recovered COVID-19 patients brought an outpouring of support. commonhealth
Lying in a COVID-19 intensive care unit bed, hooked up to a half-dozen tubes and wires, his lungs so ravaged by the virus he needed a ventilator to help him breathe, Dr. Nicolaos Athienites did the math, and the result was grim.
She posted an appeal on Facebook saying Dr. Athienites desperately needed someone with B-positive blood who’d had COVID-19. The response was overwhelming — calls and messages 24 hours a day, even as she was coming down with a milder case of the virus. Hundreds of people sent prayers and well wishes, and quite a few offered their blood if it could possibly help.Lemuel Shattuck"You know, you become a patient of Nick, you never leave," Jennifer Athienites says."They love him.
"The problem was, it’s like a good five days — which I didn’t realize — to actually find somebody, get them tested, make sure they’re a good candidate and all of that," she says.
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