Coronavirus victims receive plasma treatment from recovered patients

(WOLF) — Doctors are now using plasma to treat coronavirus patients.

The plasma comes from the blood of people who have beaten the virus, and have donated it for research and treatment.

Hospitals around the country are experimenting, we're told Geisinger is too.

Doctors say the early signs of plasma therapy are encouraging- and they're looking for more donors.

"They take these antibodies from someone who's already had the disease, their body has already made the antibodies and then give them to a patient who hasn't made the antibodies, so there's no start up time," orthopedic surgeon Roger Componovo said. "It takes the body a while to produce the antibodies, but once you've produced them, they're on the ready."

Doctors say the plasma therapy can be used as a temporary solution until a vaccine is developed.