Sunday, August 16, 2020

As COVID-19 cases rise in U.S., precious plasma donations lag

 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/covid-19-cases-rise-u-111144821.html

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/covid-19-cases-rise-u-111144821.html

“You have to go through 15 or 20 candidates to find a viable donor,” said Dr. Henry Wang, an emergency medicine doctor at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston.

The result is that some blood centers ask the same volunteers to give over and over, leading to burnout.

“We are definitely seeing donor fatigue,” said Dr. Norbert Topf, chief quality medical officer at New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services. “People get exhausted.”

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