Red Cross announces national blood shortage
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 11, 2023
Blood donations urgently needed for hospital patients in wake of back-to-back climate disasters and critical summer shortfall
The American Red Cross national blood supply has fallen to critically low levels—dropping nearly 25%-- since early August, and potentially threatening the medical care of patients with an emergency need for blood, or those living with critical conditions such as cancer and sickle cell disease and who depend on lifesaving blood transfusions. Back-to-back months of worsening climate-driven disasters have further strained the blood supply, resulting in blood drive cancelations and . . .
