Blood centers nationally declared that drop-offs in donations had reached a crisis point.
During her more than 20-year career, Dr. Sally Campbell-Lee, director of transfusion medicine for the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, said she has never witnessed such scarcity in the blood supply inventory as what was seen during the COVID-19 pandemicThanks to our sponsors:“Things have started to return to what I guess we’re going to have to call our new normal,” Campbell-Lee said. “But we are still short of what we need.
He monitors daily inventories of every blood type, and is looking toward the Fourth of July long weekend. The holiday means people are unlikely to donate, even as the demand for blood holds steady. “We have a blood shortage. It’s continued, and it’s going to continue to be a problem. We have a health care worker shortage. We have a contrast dye shortage. So the healthcare system is at its breaking point as so many levels, so even those tools that we had in place pre-pandemic are at their breaking point,” Jain said.
The FDA also lists as a reason for deferral “being a male who has had sexual contact with another male in the past 3 months.” The ban “seems like it’s actually going to result in more prejudice as opposed to protection of people who are receiving the blood,” Jain said. “The real issue is whether you’re having unprotected sexual intercourse, if you’re having sexual intercourse with multiple partners. And that can happen whether you’re a man having sex with men or whether you’re just having sexual intercourse in general.
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