Convalescent plasma: An unexpected new therapeutic option for critically ill COVID-19 patients coming from the past

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, Carlo Poma Hospital, Mantova, Italy. Electronic address: massimo.franchini@asst-mantova.it.
• ² Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ³ Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, Carlo Poma Hospital, Mantova, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Kinesiology and Community Healthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
• ⁸ North-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, Italy.