{"id":1319678,"date":"2020-04-28T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=477344"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:00:34","slug":"vail-hosts-colorados-first-mobile-plasma-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/vail-hosts-colorados-first-mobile-plasma-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail hosts Colorado\u2019s first mobile plasma collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/04\/CvrCOVIDPlasmaDrive-VDN-042920-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Town of Vail Mayor Dave Chapin gets hooked up to donate plasma Tuesday in Vail. Chapin, who has recovered from Covid-19, says it feels good to be able to give back after the experience.<\/strong><br \/><em>Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>VAIL \u2014 If you\u2019ve recovered from COVID-19 and have the test results to prove it, you have five more opportunities to locally give blood plasma that might help keep someone alive.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have the test results, you still have time.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalant,&nbsp;the nation\u2019s&nbsp;second-largest independent blood&nbsp;provider,&nbsp;is in Vail for one of the country\u2019s first mobile convalescent plasma donor events. The mobile lab and its crew of workers will be back Thursday, and will return the next two Tuesdays and Thursdays after that.<\/p>\n<p>The Vitalant crew is very happy to be here and happy to come back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row vail-donation vail-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/03\/VD-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/03\/VD-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting to be in Vail for the first mobile convalescent plasma event,\u201d said Dr. Samantha Mack, Vitalant\u2019s regional director, during Tuesday morning\u2019s opening session.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalant began collecting \u201cconvalescent plasma\u201d donations from recovered COVID-19 patients in its Ventura, California, facility.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalant is able to take its show on the road because it owns a set of FDA-approved mobile collection machines.<\/p>\n<p>Vail Mayor Dave Chapin was Tuesday\u2019s last opening day donor. He said he once did a hospital stint with four IVs sticking in him, so Tuesday\u2019s plasma donation was no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just feels good,\u201d Chapin said, adding that Vitalant will let him know when his plasma is used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been able to help anyone like this in my life,\u201d Chapin said.<\/p>\n<p>That Vitalant chose the Vail Valley for its first mobile plasma drive speaks volumes, Chapin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were recognized early as a hot spot. We were one of the first to shut down, and we\u2019ve done so much to try to get in front of this,\u201d Chapin said.<\/p>\n<h3>The help plasma might provide<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019ve recovered from COVID-19, your plasma contains antibodies that helped you fight it off. Those antibodies can help critically ill patients who are hospitalized, Mack said.<\/p>\n<p>Those patients, usually in ICU, would be&nbsp;transfused&nbsp;with a recovered patient\u2019s plasma and the antibodies it contains.<\/p>\n<p>While donors are giving plasma, their red blood cells are returned to the donors\u2019 bloodstreams. Each unit of the gold-colored plasma can treat an ill patient. Some donors have been able to&nbsp;donate&nbsp;five units, about a liter, which could treat up to five patients, Mack said.<\/p>\n<p>Because they are only collecting plasma, you can donate&nbsp;again in seven days, said Dr. Nadine Lober, the Vail resident who spearheaded the local plasma collection efforts. Lober has already donated twice, making the drive&nbsp;to one of&nbsp;Vitalant\u2019s Denver facility on two consecutive weekends.<\/p>\n<p>The donation process takes about an hour, Lober said.<\/p>\n<p>If you had COVID-19 symptoms and have test results from a reputable lab, and you\u2019ve shown no symptoms for 28 days, you\u2019re eligible to donate plasma, Lober said.<\/p>\n<h3>It\u2019s still \u2018investigational\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>The process seems to help, but concrete results are still being determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is investigational, but it makes sense that it could help,\u201d Mack said.<\/p>\n<p>So far the results are anecdotal but encouraging, Mack said.<\/p>\n<p>It matters what test you use to determine if you have antibodies doctors are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Mountain Medical is performing antibody tests on recovered COVID-19 patients every day. These results can be used to qualify an individual to donate. The serology tests are being introduced at an intense pace and not all are accurate, Mack said.<\/p>\n<p>Many donors have inquired about contacting the American Red Cross.&nbsp;There are no Red Cross donation centers in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/vail-hosts-colorados-first-mobile-plasma-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Vail Mayor Dave Chapin gets hooked up to donate plasma Tuesday in Vail. Chapin, who has recovered from Covid-19, says it feels good to be able to give back after the experience.Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com VAIL \u2014 If you\u2019ve recovered from COVID-19 and have the test results to prove it, you have five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 04:05:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319690,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319678\/revisions\/1319690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}