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With blood donations down, give the gift of life
• Red Cross doesn’t have all the blood it needs for local demand
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Rose Weatherly, 81st Diagnostic and Therapeutics Squadron registered nurse apheresis supervisor, transfers blood into tubes for testing during am apheresis platelet donor session given by Airman 1st Class Thomas Humphrey. Platelets may be required daily by leukemia patients who do not produce enough for themselves.
Blood donations are down 10 percent since the start of the pandemic.