One of Colorado’s largest blood collectors saw its supply drop by half this summer, worsening a pandemic-induced shortfall.
Brooke Way, communications manager for Vitalant’s Colorado blood centers, said there’s been a shortage for some time now as COVID-19 outbreaks canceled blood drives, but it’s become an “emergency” this summer with the usual summer increase in accidents and as hospitals catch up on deferred surgeries.
About 141,000 people donated blood in the last year in the region including Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. That’s down from about 155,000 in the previous 12 months, Way said.is in shortest supply. Anybody can safely receive a transfusion from an O-negative donor, so it’s particularly important to have on hand for emergencies when the patient’s blood type may be unknown. O-positive blood doesn’t work for everyone, but it is the most-common blood type.
, because people of African descent are more likely to have rare blood types not found in people whose ancestors came from somewhere else.to encourage eligible people to donate blood or plasma . The department estimated that someone needs whole blood or products derived from it roughly every two seconds because of an emergency, a surgery, cancer treatment, anemia or a blood disorder.
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