Coronavirus survivor donates plasma, in experiment that could thwart the pandemic

St. Joseph Hospital in Orange this week transfused blood plasma from a man who has recovered from the new coronavirus into a hospitalized patient currently battling that virus, an experiment that could prove vital in fighting the pandemic.
Plasma from coronavirus survivors carries antibodies, disease-fighting proteins, which doctors suspect can be injected into other people and used to fight COVID-19, the diseased caused by the coronavirus.
That’s why physicians at St. Joseph and a handful