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The choice to donate blood or plasma is completely voluntary, the Marine Corps said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a body is infected with a disease it has never encountered before it could take up to two weeks to develop the antibodies needed to fight the infection, Dr. Katia Koelle, a viral evolutionary biologist, told Marine Corps Times in a Thursday phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you can take that plasma from someone who had that infection and give it to someone who hasn\u2019t been infected, basically what you\u2019re giving them is the special ingredient to fight the virus,\u201d Koelle said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treatment has not been fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19, but has been authorized as an \u201cinvestigational treatment\u201d exploring how effective the treatment is for those fighting the potentially deadly disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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