'One of the most important things you can do to ensure we don’t have another health-care crisis on top of coronavirus is to give [blood] now.' - RedCross
Face masks and respirators aren’t the only vital medical resources in short supply — there is also a critical need for blood donations amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
“We’re facing a severe shortage right now,” she said — a sentiment being echoed by local blood banks such as the New York Blood Center, the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in Texas and the Central California Blood Center. But U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has said, “You can still go out and give blood. We’re worried about potential blood shortages in the future. Social distancing does not have to mean social disengagement.” Both the FDA and the CDC also released statements on Thursday encouraging healthy individuals to donate blood if they can. Even if you are sheltering in place, you can leave home to do “essential” things such as buy food, pick up medications — and donate blood.
2. You cannot catch the novel coronavirus by donating blood. This is a respiratory infection, and there is no evidence that it is transmissible by blood transfusion. People acquire it through respiratory droplets in the air after someone coughs or sneezes and after touching contaminated objects.
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