Red Cross declares second-ever blood crisis as donations plummet nationwide

Patients in affected regions are receiving less blood than medically needed for transfusions, potentially impacting treatment outcomes.

For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a national blood supply crisis, a designation so rare it signals not merely a shortage but a systemic fracture in one of medicine's most essential infrastructures. Across the country, nearly half of all donation appointments are going unfilled, leaving hospitals from New England to the South to make painful bedside compromises — rationing transfusions, postponing surgeries, and confronting the fragility of a system most people trust without ever thinking about it. The declaration is both a warning and an appeal: the g

Red Cross declares second-ever blood crisis as donations plummet nationwide

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