As part of an ongoing effort to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of people affected by the pandemic, AP staffers – Allen G. Breed, national writer and video journalist, Raleigh, North Carolina; Marshall Rizel, health and science video journalist, New York; Lauran Neergaard, medical writer, Washington; Marilynn Marchione, chief medical writer, Milwaukee; and Federica Narancio, health and science video journalist, Washington – spent weeks searching for patients to put faces on two clinical trials testing COVID-19 treatments: One was a coronavirus survivor who opted to donate her blood for research; the other was a doctor turned patient who decided to join a study testing an experimental biotech drug.
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Focus on COVID-19 patients for testing treatments
Tiffany Pinckney poses for a portrait in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, April 1, 2020. After a period of quarantine at home separated from her children, she has recovered from COVID-19 and become one of the nation’s first donors of “convalescent plasma.” “It is definitely overwhelming to know that in my blood, there may be answers,” Pinckney told the AP.
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