"Tainted Blood"
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Covid Skeptics Request Blood Transfusions From Unvaccinated Donors
With nearly 60% of the eligible U.S. population fully vaccinated, most of the nation’s blood supply is now coming from donors who have been inoculated, experts said. That’s led some patients who are skeptical of the shots to demand transfusions only from the unvaccinated, an option blood centers insist is neither medically sound nor operationally feasible.
“We are definitely aware of patients who have refused blood products from vaccinated donors,” said Dr. Julie Katz Karp, who directs the blood bank and transfusion medicine program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.
Emily Osment, an American Red Cross spokesperson, said her organization has fielded questions from clients worried that vaccinated blood would be “tainted,” capable of transmitting components from the covid vaccines. Red Cross officials said they’ve had to reassure clients that a covid vaccine, which is injected into muscle or the layer of skin below, doesn’t circulate in the blood.
“While the antibodies that are produced by the stimulated immune system in response to vaccination are found throughout the bloodstream, the actual vaccine components are not,” Jessa Merrill, the Red Cross director of biomedical communications, said in an email.
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Covid Skeptics Request Blood Transfusions From Unvaccinated Donors
With nearly 60% of the eligible U.S. population fully vaccinated, most of the nation’s blood supply is now coming from donors who have been inoculated, experts said. That’s led some patients who are skeptical of the shots to demand transfusions only from the unvaccinated, an option blood centers insist is neither medically sound nor operationally feasible.
“We are definitely aware of patients who have refused blood products from vaccinated donors,” said Dr. Julie Katz Karp, who directs the blood bank and transfusion medicine program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.
Emily Osment, an American Red Cross spokesperson, said her organization has fielded questions from clients worried that vaccinated blood would be “tainted,” capable of transmitting components from the covid vaccines. Red Cross officials said they’ve had to reassure clients that a covid vaccine, which is injected into muscle or the layer of skin below, doesn’t circulate in the blood.
“While the antibodies that are produced by the stimulated immune system in response to vaccination are found throughout the bloodstream, the actual vaccine components are not,” Jessa Merrill, the Red Cross director of biomedical communications, said in an email.
@george-k said in "Tainted Blood":
That’s led some patients who are skeptical of the shots to demand transfusions only from the unvaccinated
Demand away, assholes.
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Great idea for a secondary market for blood. I mean people bought hydroxychoroquine and now ivermectin for animals that way. The distribution channel is set, now we just need to add certified untainted blood. Maybe US is the premium and you can get “generic” from other countries.
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Just as an aside...We're scrambling for blood. I had a gal with a 22 crit on Sunday morning...Common type, O pos, usually not a problem. I've got four units on the shelf. Four. And two O negs. Now folks, this is a small rural hospital and the normal inventory is 12 O pos and 4 O neg.
I was able to squeeze four units out of the blood center, and those didn't come in until 1900.
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Just as an aside...We're scrambling for blood. I had a gal with a 22 crit on Sunday morning...Common type, O pos, usually not a problem. I've got four units on the shelf. Four. And two O negs. Now folks, this is a small rural hospital and the normal inventory is 12 O pos and 4 O neg.
I was able to squeeze four units out of the blood center, and those didn't come in until 1900.
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Why the low crit? I dunno. She was in her 80's.
I do know she's been in a nursing home for quite some time.
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Why the low crit? I dunno. She was in her 80's.
I do know she's been in a nursing home for quite some time.
