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If a person who is infected with coronavirus, but who does not have symptoms, donates blood, and a patient eventually receives blood from that person, is the patient at risk of infection, and also at risk of spreading the virus themselves?

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Coronavirus: Excellent questtion -- answer unknown. Future research will tell.

Answered 4/29/2020

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A member asked:

If a person who is infected with coronavirus, but who does not have symptoms, donates blood, and a patient eventually receives blood from that person, is the patient at risk of infection, and also at risk of spreading the virus themselves?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

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