Mayor Bill de Blasio cautioned Sunday that the New York City Blood Center is down to just a two-day supply and pleaded with New Yorkers to help confront the latest health emergency posed by the virus.
Find out how a potentially life-saving treatment known as blood plasma can allow doctors to use the antibodies of coronavirus survivors to treat COVID-19 patients.Having already faced a shortage of hospital beds and ventilators, New York City officials say the
He said that before New York City became the U.S. epicenter of the global pandemic, blood drives at businesses, churches and other sites were the biggest source of donated blood in the area. Now, blood drives have almost completely stopped as churches and businesses have been forced to shut down as part of the stay-at-home measures being taken to blunt the spread of the disease that has infected more than 190,000 people and caused nearly 16,000 confirmed deaths in New York City alone.
A registered nurse draws blood to test for COVID-19 antibodies at Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem, New York City, May 14, 2020.New York City Blood Center officials reported that donations in the area it covers have dropped roughly 14,000, or about half the blood it collects in a typical month.told ABC station WABC
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