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US College Student Who Overcame COVID-19 Donates Plasma to Research

Saqib Ul Islam

   WASHINGTON - Twenty-year-old Leo Canty says he was worried less about
   himself and more about the people around him when he tested positive
   for COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, in late March.

   "The scariest part was that thought in my mind, that like hurting
   someone else, hoping that people I've been in contact with,
   specifically my family, were all OK," the New York college student said
   via Skype from his home in Washington.

   Canty lives with his parents and three siblings in the home, where he
   quarantined himself in his room. His mother, Michelle Cochran, also
   tested positive in early April.

   "We were all quarantined to the house for two weeks. It was about four
   weeks, of all us inside the house, all the time, in different
   quarantines," she said.

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