Turnout at blood drives affected as summers get hotter and extreme weather causes cancellations, Red Cross warns
A person donates blood during a Children's Hospital Los Angeles blood donation drive in the LA Kings blood mobile Los Angeles, California, in 2022.A person donates blood during a Children's Hospital Los Angeles blood donation drive in the LA Kings blood mobile Los Angeles, California, in 2022.is now threatening the medical blood supply in the US, with this summer’s record breaking heat contributing to an emergency blood shortage, the American Red Cross has warned.
“That’s a very fast drop in just about a month, and that limits our ability to meet hospital requests for blood,” Rodney Wilson, the senior biomedical communications specialist for the American Red Cross, said. “So as hospitals request blood to treat patients, we’ve had to limit our distributions of some of those key types that they need the most, because there isn’t enough for everybody.”
Wilson said that the number of cancelled blood drives due to heat and extreme weather is higher this summer than last year.this month as “strained”, “lower than it should be” and “trending downward at concerning levels” adding that many blood collection organizations are facing critical shortages.
with schools serving as convenient neighborhood locations that encourage students, teachers, staff and parents to donate. “It’s important to remember that blood really helps make modern medicine possible,” Wilson said.
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