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“Due to a variety of factors, blood donations are not where we need them to be and we are in critical need of blood to serve our local hospitals”.

“The vast majority of our blood donations come from students in high school and college, and so we see a real drop-off when students are off for the summer”, Eckert said. “Whole blood donors can give as many as six times a year, but double red donors can only...

Blood donations do tend to decline during the summer months as people become busy with travel and vacations.

The American Red Cross is facing a looming shortage of the blood types most needed by patients and is calling on eligible donors with O negative, B negative and A negative blood to give now to prevent an emergency situation. “Patients don’t get a summer holiday or...