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The American Red Cross is sounding the emergency alarm for blood.
The Red Cross says it’s seeing the lowest number of people giving blood in 20 years.
Hospitals are receiving whole blood, red blood cells, plasma and platelets faster than donations are coming in.
That’s bad news for patients who need transfusions or surgeries and matching donors with rare blood types.
Monica Janssen, donor coordinator for Dak-Minn Blood Bank in Grand Forks, says the number of local donors has steadily increased since the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020.
Janssen says O-negative is the blood type that’s hard to come across, but Dak-Minn accepts donations of all blood types.
The Red Cross says only three percent of age-eligible people donate blood every year.
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