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Hospital: First Critical NJ Patients To Receive COVID-19 Plasma Make 'Remarkable' Recoveries Hospital: First Critical NJ Patients To Receive COVID-19 Plasma Make 'Remarkable' Recoveries
Hospital: First Critical NJ Patients To Receive Covid-19 Plasma Make 'Remarkable' Recoveries The first two New Jersey residents to receive plasma transfusions for critical cases of COVID-19 -- a 63-year-old teacher and a 61-year-old old opera singer – were released from the hospital after making "remarkable" recoveries, Virtua Voorhees Health System announced. Their recoveries came as studies at several New Jersey hospitals explore whether the transfusions can help save coronavirus patients who are moderately or critically ill. Both Renee Bannister of Blackwood (Gloucester County) and Andy Fei of Mount Laurel (Burlington County) had been on ventilators in the intensive care unit at…

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by Jerry DeMarco