The New Zealand Herald

Doctor an antibody superdonor

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A British paediatric­ian who nearly died from coronaviru­s has been identified as an antibody superdonor whose blood plasma can significan­tly boost other patients’ chances of survival. Dr

Alessandro Giardini, who spent seven days on a ventilator after contractin­g the virus, has been found to have antibody levels 40 times higher than the normal convalesce­nt patient. The 46-year-old father of two is now leading the campaign for other recovered patients to donate their blood plasma. His extraordin­ary antibody levels were discovered as part of an NHS trial to analyse the blood of more than 400 Covid-19 patients.

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