[Sca-cooks] Re: Is everyone OK?
Angie Malone
alm4 at cornell.edu
Fri Sep 14 10:57:48 PDT 2001
I heard on the news that at least in NYC they were getting a freezer
where they could freeze the donated blood that would enable it to
last a lot longer. Unfortunately I don't remember how long they said.
A source for information about blood life might be the red cross web page.
Angeline
>
>
>> Marian Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>> > I started my quest to give blood at a hospital. They were sending
>> > people to the Red Cross because they had run out of supplies to take
>> > blood.
>>
>> Well on the other hand... Donated blood only has a shelf life of
>>about five days.
>> When the enthusiasm dies down in a week or two, and less people
>>are lining up to
>> donate, they will still need the blood. Better to keep it in the
>>veins until
>> actually needed then.
>>
>> My household is on the blood donation waiting list. How about
>>yours, everyone?
>
>I'd been hearing 5 weeks from the techs where I donated blood.
>
>Does anyone know where one could get concrete actual evidence on this?
>
>-M
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