America’s blood supply is so low the Red Cross is calling it a crisis

For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a national blood crisis, and the second time it’s done so in the past five years, as it cautions that the current blood supply could threaten patient care. With less than a one-day national supply of type O blood on-hand, the Red Cross said it’s been forced to limit distributions to individual hospitals, which is problematic as it’s the most commonly transfused blood type. The goal, according to the Washington,…