Calls for plasma in COVID fight conflict with decades-old restriction on blood donations

Florida Rep. Shevrin Jones at the opening of a COVID-19 testing site at the Koinonia Worship Center and Village in West Park in July 22, 2020. Jones, who has recovered from COVID, is one of many people whose convalescent plasma donation was refused by the blood banks. He was told he was “deferred for three months.” (Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel)