The blood supply is still under stress.
Dawn Morris, the South Central Red Cross Director says nationwide the Red Cross still provides 40% of the blood supply. But winter weather and continued worries about COVID seem to be keeping people away from donation centers.
If you donate to the Red Cross and you have the Red Cross App, Morris says you will be able to know a little about how your donation was used.
“The good thing with the Red Cross is if you have signed up and you have the app you, of course, because of confidentiality, you do not know the person’s name that it goes to, but there is nothing more touching and real than getting a message or email saying that your blood went to such and such, to help a child; it kind of gives you a story and it is a very vague story, but you get to see.”
All blood types are needed, and you can start donating after the age of 16.
