LISTEN: COVID-19 Daily Update - April 14, 2020

In this segment, Dr. Peltier discusses the promise of a more than 100-year-old treatment called Convalescent Plasma (CP) Therapy for critically ill COVID-19 patients. He talks about a new partnership between The Blood Center and Mayo Clinic that is making it possible for recovered COVID-19 positive patients in Louisiana to donate plasma for use as an emergency rescue therapy for these critically ill patients.

The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly evolving. Tangi 96.5 FM and KAJUN 107.1 FM's Johnny Chauvin gets the weekday COVID-19 update for April 14 from Dr. Robert Peltier with North Oaks Health System in Hammond, Louisiana. Dr. Peltier, who is an internal medicine physician and tropical medicine specialist, serves as chief medical officer of North Oaks Health System.

Listen to more updates at: www.tangi965.com/interviews and www.northoaks.org/coronavirus