Abstract Presentations: COVID

This session, High scoring abstract presentations in the topic of COVID-19, was held on June 2, 2021. The session included the following 5-minute presentations of the selected abstracts:

• Associations between symptoms, patient characteristics and IgG antibody response in COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors Marieke Vinkenoog
• Association of age with anti-SARS-COV-2 IgG antibody titer in convalescent plasma donors Emma Castro
• Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody concentrations in different convalescent plasma donors subgroups Grubovic Rastvorceva R
• Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood donation and transfusion in Nigeria – a multifacility study of 34 tertiary hospitals Adaeze Oreh
• Tracking SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among Canadian blood donors through two pandemic waves Sahar Saeed
• Plasma donated by persons vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 is new source for passive immunotherapy Eugene Zhiburt
• Establishment of methodology for COVID-19 convalescent plasma collection and testing at Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine A Hecimovic

​The abstracts of the ISBT In Focus virtual congress were published as a special congress issue in Vox Sanguinis: