Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price donates COVID-19 antibodies for treatment
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price donated COVID-19 convalescent plasma Friday at a Carter BloodCare in the Near Southside.
Plasma from patients who have recovered from the novel coronavirus may be an effective way to treat COVID-19 infections in others, according the Federal Drug Administration. The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to be used in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Plasma is the liquid part of blood that contains antibodies.
Price was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus Nov. 18 after her husband had tested positive earlier that week. She was treated at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth and was the third person in North Texas to receive a scarce antibody therapy called bamlanivimab.
