If you currently survived Coronavirus and you're a man, the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) wants you to donate your plasma for testing. This was after studies shown that men have more antibody-rich plasma compared to women. It also means that once men get diagnosed with COVID-19 and healed from it, his blood will be more helpful to heal other people experiencing the virus.
Study: Men have more antibodies than women but more prone to getting the virus
Not all people are allowed to donate their plasma to hospitals. Of course, patients are needed to be survivors of the virus.
All the organ donators are required to take a few days after their recovery from the virus to make sure that the antibodies are fully developed inside the bodies.
The process is also quick. The report says that it only takes 45 minutes to separate plasma from the blood that you will be donating.
'It was a no-brainer.'
BBC interviewed one of the plasma donators to share his experience. Simon Callon, 51, from St Helens, Merseyside, said that donating plasma is a 'no-brainer' and very easy to do.
His father died from coronavirus, so he wanted to make sure that no one else would be dying from the same disease.
"I don't want anybody going through what happened to my dad. He died in a hospital ward with no family or friends, with a nurse holding his hand. Only 10 people were allowed at his funeral," he said. "If you can save somebody or help somebody, you would do it."
