"Tainted Blood"

[George K]

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.

[Doctor Phibes]

@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.

[Mik]

So bleed to death.

[Copper]

I wonder how many people reject blood from Trump supporters.

[Loki]

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.

[Jolly]

@mik said in "Tainted Blood":

So bleed to death.

Over the years, I've seen a lot of JH refuse blood...until the doc says take it or die. After that, 1 refused. He died.

[Mik]

It's a choice. After all, you have to have a lot of faith in what's next to fly an airliner into a building.

[Mik]

[Jolly]

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.

[George K]

@jolly said in "Tainted Blood":

a gal with a 22 crit

Just curious, due to what? How old?

[Jolly]

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.

[George K]

@jolly said in "Tainted Blood":

Why the low crit? I dunno. She was in her 80's.

Ah, OK. At 80 she might appreciate a top-up.

At 20, I'd say, "nah."