BREAKING: Red Cross declares first-ever national blood crisis
The nation's blood supply is dangerously low, prompting the Red Cross to announce a national blood crisis for the first time.
"If the nation's blood supply does not stabilize soon, life-saving blood may not be available for some patients when it is needed," it warned in a joint statement with America's Blood Centers and the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies. Hospitals need blood for surgeries, transplants, cancer treatments and chronic illnesses, but the Red Cross says that during this historic shortage, there are days it can't give hospitals all of the blood products they request. The shortage means doctors are being forced to make tough decisions about who should get blood and who needs to wait until there is more supply.
"Sometimes I can't do things when I'm hurting, like sometimes I can't get out of bed," Holmes said of how the disease affects him.
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