blood donation

A perfect storm of factors, plus an actual storm, is leading to a major national blood shortage for the American Red Cross.

The American Red Cross is in crisis, and nation is facing it’s worst blood shortage in more than a decade.

Even with the pandemic, the American Red Cross has kept up on blood donations over the past year. Despite that, the blood shortage is worse now than…

"Donors will no longer be asked to declare if they have had sex with another man, making the criteria for blood donation gender neutral and more inclusive," the National Health Service explains.

Federal rules had made such donors wait 12 months before donating. That wait is now three months. The coronavirus outbreak has caused donor centers to be closed and blood drives canceled.