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EditorialEnrique Romero Jr. outside a plasma center, where he donates to supplement his income, in Bellingham, Wash., Feb. 7, 2022. (Jovelle Tamayo/The New York Times)
EditorialBob Mumgaard, a plasma physicist and chief executive of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, in Cambridge, Mass., June 25, 2021. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialBob Mumgaard, a plasma physicist and chief executive of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, in Cambridge, Mass., June 25, 2021. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialScott Cohen, who was on a ventilator when he received convalescent plasma treatment for COVID-19, near his home in Plainview, N.Y., March 30, 2021. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialPavel Dashkevich donates plasma after recovering from COVID-19 in hopes that his antibodies can help other coronavirus patients, in Moscow, April 29, 2020. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialFreezers containing a half-million vials of plasma outside the lab of Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Feb. 13, 2021. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump watches Stephen Hahn, Food and Drugs commissioner, during a news conference announcing an emergency use authorization of a plasma treatment for COVID-19, at the White House in Washington, Aug. 23, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump watches Stephen Hahn, Food and Drugs commissioner, during a news conference announcing an emergency use authorization of a plasma treatment for COVID-19, at the White House in Washington, Aug. 23, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump and health officials announce the emergency authorization for convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 at the White House in Washington, Aug. 23, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialIgor and Svetlana Matveev, of Maclean, Va., both plasma physicists who immigrated from Ukraine 17 years ago, stop on their way home from Connecticut to have a snack at the Richard Stockton Rest Area in New Jersey along Interstate 95, Sept. 5, 2020. (Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Stephen Hahn, who heads the Food and Drug Administration, looks on as President Donald Trump speaks about a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 at a White House news conference on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Stephen M. Hahn, the FDA commissioner, during a press briefing in the White House on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/For The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrive during a news conference about the authorization of using convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients at the White House in Washington, Aug. 23, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialJavier Alvarez donates his plasma at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas on July 6, 2020, after his grandmother died from the coronavirus. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)