\"Given the chance to donate blood to help find a cure for Covid, my response was an immediate “yes”. A modest — but fundamental — gesture, through which I am playing my small part,\" he said in the statement.
Convalescent plasma — blood from survivors of the virus that contains antibodies — is being used by researchers in hopes that it \"can be given to people with severe COVID-19 to boost their ability to fight the virus,\" according to the Mayo Clinic.
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