Advocate Aurora administers its first convalescent plasma transfusion

Critically ill elderly patient 'doing well' after treatment

An elderly male patient in Milwaukee has responded well to a convalescent plasma transfusion after being the first recipient in the Advocate Aurora Health system of an experimental COVID-19 treatment.  The treatment involves taking the antibodies from the bloodstream of a person who has recovered from the virus and giving them to ill patients.  Aurora

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