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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canadian Blood Companies is proud to be a part of CONCOR, a nationwide scientific trial to check the protection and effectiveness of COVID-19 convalescent plasma as a doable remedy to assist sufferers contaminated with the virus. As we speak, the nationwide blood authority and operator collected its first COVID-19 convalescent plasma donation in Vancouver.

“I’m delighted to have the ability to assist out a very good trigger. I’ve been an energetic blood donor for 15 years. I’m happy my unlucky state of affairs can assist someone else. I believe I’m doing somewhat bit of excellent out of all this.” says Jerry Glubisz, Canadian Blood Companies’ first COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor.

Canadian Blood Companies is establishing a nationwide convalescent plasma assortment program. The blood operator is now recruiting potential convalescent plasma donors throughout the nation by means of its new online registry.

“Convalescent plasma might assist sufferers recuperate from COVID-19, however this has not but been confirmed. Nicely-designed scientific trials, like CONCOR, will assist present the mandatory details about whether or not it is a protected and efficient remedy possibility for sufferers,” says Dr. Dana Devine, chief scientist with Canadian Blood Companies. “We’re making an necessary contribution to analysis on a worldwide scale that might assist sufferers in Canada and world wide.”

Over the subsequent few weeks extra convalescent plasma donors, like Jerry Glubisz, might donate at one in all 11 Canadian Blood Companies donor centres which have the aptitude to gather blood parts, like plasma, by means of a course of referred to as apheresis. These donor centres are situated in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax.

Initially, all convalescent plasma donations will probably be equipped to Canadian physicians caring for sufferers with COVID-19 within the context of the CONCOR trial and underneath the authorization of Well being Canada.

Together with each of Canada’s public blood operators (Canadian Blood Companies and Héma-Québec), there are 10 analysis groups and greater than 50 hospitals throughout the nation at the moment collaborating in CONCOR. Affected person involvement within the scientific trial will probably be decided by their treating doctor at a collaborating hospital in session with the affected person and/or the affected person’s household. Sufferers with COVID-19 who’re searching for extra info on convalescent plasma as a remedy possibility are inspired to go to CONCOR1.ca.

Whereas Canadian Blood Companies has formally began accumulating convalescent plasma, these donations should nonetheless bear all vital testing and processing earlier than being issued to be used by physicians, as per blood security and high quality requirements. Transfusions of convalescent plasma are anticipated to start inside a number of weeks when the trial begins.

A convalescent plasma donation is similar as a plasma donation; nonetheless, a selected donor is required for this scientific trial. Along with assembly Canada’s present plasma donor eligibility standards, convalescent plasma donors should be youthful than 67 years of age, beforehand confirmed constructive for COVID-19 by a laboratory check, and absolutely recovered from the virus and symptom free for at the least 28 days to take part. Donors should additionally reside inside driving distance of a donor centre situated in one of many aforementioned cities. Anybody who meets these necessities is inspired to affix Canadian Blood Companies’ on-line registry. Further testing will probably be achieved on the time of assortment to make sure there are sufficient antibodies in opposition to the COVID-19 virus within the donor’s plasma to be a part of the trial.

Registered convalescent plasma donors who could also be eligible are being contacted now and all convalescent plasma donation appointments are being booked as donors are certified to take part by Canadian Blood Companies’ Centre for Innovation which oversees analysis and growth for the group.   

Canadian Blood Companies will not be accepting walk-in donors for any of its assortment packages through the pandemic.

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As per present bodily distancing measures, media are usually not permitted to go to Canadian Blood Companies donor centres. To make sure media have entry to belongings vital to supply protection, uncooked footage and an uncut interview with Canadian Blood Companies’ first convalescent plasma donor will probably be made out there. 

Net-based interviews with Mr. Glubisz and with convalescent plasma donors in different areas of Canada might also be organized by means of Canadian Blood Companies.

Please contact media@blood.ca for extra info.

About Canadian Blood Companies

Canadian Blood Companies is a not-for-profit charitable group. Regulated by Well being Canada as a biologics producer and primarily funded by the provincial and territorial ministries of well being, Canadian Blood Companies operates with a nationwide scope, infrastructure and governance that make it distinctive inside Canadian healthcare. Within the area of blood, plasma and stem cells, we offer providers for sufferers on behalf of all provincial and territorial governments besides Quebec. The nationwide transplant registry for interprovincial organ sharing and associated packages reaches into all provinces and territories, as a organic lifeline for Canadians.

About Canadian Blood Companies Analysis Actions

Canadian Blood Companies, by means of its Centre for Innovation, conducts and helps analysis tasks in key precedence areas that span the translational continuum from “bench to mattress aspect.” The main focus is on transfusion science and medication but in addition associated fields resembling mobile therapies (particularly hematopoietic stem cell transplantations) and organ and tissue transplantation. Our analysis findings are revealed in peer-reviewed journals or immediately shared with stakeholders.

Instrumental to our analysis efforts are discovery and utilized analysis laboratories led by university-affiliated Canadian Blood Companies workers scientists, in addition to our medical consultants and adjunct scientists. Complementing these core analysis groups, the Centre for Innovation facilitates a nationwide and worldwide analysis community of blood system consultants by means of aggressive analysis funding alternatives, collaborations and contract analysis.

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