February 24, 2026
Blood Drive
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. • Goodpasture Hall
We need 30 more people to reach our goal.
Afternoon appointments are available!
Severe Blood & Platelet Shortage
The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage as requests from hospitals exceed the available supply, drawing down the blood supply by about 35% over the past month. The shortage is especially serious for platelets and type O, A negative and B negative blood. Without immediate action, patients face serious risk. Your help is needed right now.
• Hospitals already strained by the worst flu season in nearly 20 years are now also being forced to triage critical blood products. High flu activity in nearly every state may be sidelining donors, slowing efforts to rebuild the Red Cross national blood supply. • During a blood shortage, doctors may face difficult choices about which patients receive blood transfusions and who will need to wait. o Seconds count in emergencies, and it’s the blood already on hospital shelves that helps save lives. When supplies are critically low, trauma surgeons and other doctors face the real possibility that blood could run out when it’s needed most. o Without immediate action, patients who rely on transfusions — including trauma victims, mothers in childbirth, and people with sickle cell disease or cancer — face serious risk.
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