The “Turn Positive into a Positive” campaign will leverage medical experts, political figures, business leaders and sports figures, as well as area residents who attribute their recovery from the virus to the treatment.
Blood supplies are getting dangerously low because there haven’t been any blood drives during the coronavirus pandemic.
As the pandemic continues, local blood donation centers are seeing a decrease in the amount of people donating convalescent plasma.
The Greenville Drive, in partnership with The Blood Connection and Prisma Health, announced today an upcoming community blood and convalescent plasma donation drive at Fluor Field on Saturday, Oct. 3.
Local blood supplies are running short due in part to the pandemic. The Blood Connection teamed with Vidant Health to hold a blood drive today at the Greenville Convention Center.
By the time Lisa Hardin saw a positive test result for COVID-19, she already had pneumonia in both lungs and every breath felt like she was breathing through a straw. Her husband drove her to the emergency department Friday, April 10, where she became South Carolina’s first coronavirus patient.