Red Cross caught red-handed? On the Red Cross’s
Blood Drive FAQ, it is stated that only about 2% of blood is discarded due
to tests coming back positive or false positive for contamination.
However,
after 9/11 the Red
Cross destroyed almost 50,000 pints of excess blood because it wasn’t
needed. Other blood centers were somewhat disgusted by what the Red Cross was
doing, asking for continual donations of blood when obviously people were dead
and blood wasn’t needed. The Red Cross freely admits that blood has only a 42-day
shelf life before it is unusable. The Red Cross said the blood would be used or
frozen in plasma for future use. Of 100,000 units, fewer than 10,000 made it
into plasma.It really makes a person wonder if there might be a better place to make a personal donation.
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