The Toxicity of Platelet Transfusions

The intercept system is approved in the United States, and as you mentioned, Joe, some blood centers are beginning to adopt this. With platelets, a number of pretty well structured clinical trials have been done comparing the effectiveness of intercept platelets with ordinary aphyrysis plateletsto prevent or control bleeding. And so I think the clinical data is very strong that these intercept platelets are equally effective to our current standard platelets in managing bleeding. Now the next thing you're probably going to ask me is about platelet counts.