Thousands of Orthodox Jews across the country are donating antibody-rich plasma used to treat COVID-19. “There’s no way we’d be able to treat so many people without them,” says Mayo Clinic's Dr. Joyner.
Dr. Israel Zyskind, a pediatrician in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a high concentration of Hasidic Jews, said the vast majority heeded the warnings to remain indoors. He said the virus spread rapidly during the Purim holiday in early March.
A crowd of girls gather at a crosswalk in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., which was hit by the virus early on.The communities are insular and some tend to maintain an old-world way of life. Many families, Zyskind said, still live without televisions or computers. The initial blood drive in mid-April came together within hours of the Saturday phone call with Joyner, Kaszirer said.
“We were like, ‘We thought this would take days.’ And here it was – literally from idea to result was a little longer than 36 hours,” he said.
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