Hyderabad once again stop forwarding fake plasma donors list
A list of plasma donors is being circulated on WhatsApp. The list contains phone numbers and blood type of more than...
By Satya Priya BN Published on 16 April 2021 4:30 AM GMT
Hyderabad: A list of plasma donors is being circulated on WhatsApp. The list contains phone numbers and blood type of more than 25 people who are willing to donate plasma for COVID treatment.
Fact Check:
The above claim is FALSE.
NewsMeter performed a search using some keywords and found a website, medium.com that had the same list but was titled 'List of Blood Donors in Chennai'. The list was published in November 2017.
A Facebook page, Hyderabad blood donors, had also shared the list with some minor differences in February 2017. The list contained 62 phone numbers. However, there was no mention of plasma donors.
The same list with some additions was shared on a blog, https://chityala4u.blogspot.
When NewsMeter tried to contact the persons on the list, most of the numbers were no longer operational. Also, when we searched on Truecaller, most of the numbers listed showed Tamil Nadu as the location.
A fact-check article by Altnews.in published in June 2020 confirmed that it was a list of blood donors that was created four years ago.
According to several reports, plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patients can only be used to treat coronavirus. A normal person's plasma cannot be used as it will not contain COVID-19 antibodies.
Therefore, the viral list of plasma donors is, in fact, an old list of blood donors and NOT related to the present COVID-19 pandemic.
