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The first plasma transfusion to a patient with COVID-19 in Puerto Rico has been a success and the patient is, after a first test and in the absence of another that will be done in 14 days, free of the new coronavirus, as reported this Thursday in press conference the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz.
On April 17, Yulín Cruz reported that the Municipal Hospital of San Juan carried out the process as part of a study by the Mayo Clinic hospital and medical research center.
As the mayor explained in a press release at the time, it was medical personnel from the Municipal Hospital of San Juan who transfused convalescent plasma from a patient cured of COVID-19 to another who was intubated with the virus and hospitalized in the same center. sanitary of the capital.
Convalescent plasma is the liquid part of blood that is collected from a patient who has recovered from an infection.
“Today, for the first time in Puerto Rico, we are going to supply a patient intubated at the Municipal Hospital with the plasma obtained from another patient who had the virus, who no longer has symptoms and who had his last molecular test to detect the virus was negative “The mayor then explained.
In a press conference held Thursday, the mayor explained that within 14 days she will be tested again for COVID-19 to confirm this first negative result.
In turn, he warned that said protocol is currently being carried out on people in critical condition and with respirators.
The Puerto Rico Health Department reported this Thursday on two additional deaths from COVID-19, which brings the global death toll to 69, as well as the sum of 38 additional positive results from the new coronavirus, which would put the global number at 1,033.
Of the 38 additional positive results, 27 were obtained through private laboratories and 11 were processed in the Public Health Laboratory.
The Veterans Hospital did not report positive test results.
The reported deaths correspond to two men, one 74 years old and the other 79, from the Mayagüez and Metro regions, respectively.
The two deaths are considered as confirmed cases positive for COVID-19.
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