Nearly 2,700 Red Cross blood drives have been canceled, resulting in about 86,000 fewer donations.
The American Red Cross is urging healthy residents to make an appointment and donate blood as the country faces a “severe blood shortage” due to the coronavirus outbreak.
“I am looking at the refrigerator that contains only one day’s supply of blood for the hospital,” said Dr. Robertson Davenport, director of Transfusion Medicine at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor. “The hospital is full. There are patients who need blood and cannot wait.” Eduardo Nunes, Vice President of Quality, Standards, and Accreditation at AABB, said most hospitals are down to a blood supply of two to three days.
Nunes said the best cure for the national blood shortage is for young, healthy people to make an appointm with their local blood bank and donate.
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