Kate offered plasma to aid sick husband
KATE Garraway has revealed she offered to donate her own blood to husband Derek Draper after they were both struck down with coronavirus.
The Good Morning Britain host, 53, quickly recovered but her husband has been in intensive care since March and only recently came out of a coma.
Speaking on yesterday’s show, Kate explained she was keen to donate her blood plasma to help Derek in April but her offer was rejected.
She said: “I was looking for anything that might be able to help. They said, ‘We are months away from being able to be confident that we could clean your blood enough to make sure only good antibodies were going in’.”
Derek, 52, has since had a therapeutic plasma exchange which Kate said was to “try to support the cleaning up of the system.”