American Red Cross faces 'severe blood shortage' as cancellations increase due to coronavirus

Nearly 2,700 Red Cross blood drives have been cancelled in the U.S.

"I am looking at the refrigerator that contains only one day’s supply of blood for the hospital," Dr. Robertson Davenport, director of transfusion medicine at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, said in the statement."The hospital is full. There are patients who need blood and cannot wait."

Donors rest as phlebotomists work during a blood drive, following reports from Seattle and King County Public Health that the local blood supply is in danger of collapse due to canceled blood drives and lost donations out of fears of coronavirus disease cases in the country, at the Shoreline Masonic Lodge in Shoreline, Wash., March 15, 2020.

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