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COVID unlikely to be passed through blood donations Sponsored Content Provided By Pfizer COVID unlikely to be passed through blood donations Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images People who previously had COVID can donate blood without transmitting the virus, according to a National Institute of Health study released Tuesday. The findings show donors have a less than 1% chance of transmitting the virus as long as any COVID-related symptoms and infections cleared up 14 days prior to donating blood, per U.S Food and Drug Administration guidelines. The agency s January 2021 guidelines require a physical screening for COVID symptoms and infections. Individuals who test positive for COVID antibodies but never developed symptoms or received an mRNA-based vaccine are able to donate without waiting 14 days. Anyone who tests positive for COVID must wait 14 days before donating, whether or not they have symptoms. There is no requirement to test donated blood ....
News Release Tuesday, June 1, 2021 A new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues has found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, does not appear to pose a threat to the safety of the nation’s blood supply. The analysis, published in Transfusion, supports current donor screening guidelines, including those used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, that do not require testing blood samples for the SARS-CoV-2 virus but do require that donors be screened for physical symptoms of COVID-19 and for infections that occurred within 14 days of the blood donation. The blood of donors with recent COVID-19 infections, or who develop infections after recent donations, cannot be used. ....
You can safely give - or receive - blood without worrying about giving someone COVID, according to new research. This is good news for the thousands of patients who need blood transfusions. ....