ArticleAmerican journal of public health2021
Public Policy Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Blood Supply in the United States.
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- The Effect of Heterogeneous Definitions of Massive Transfusion on Using Blood Component Thresholds to Predict Futility in Severely Bleeding Trauma Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood donation and transfusions in the United States in 2020.Transfusion · 2023Article
- Use of blood products during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic period: A single center report.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Donor motivation and psychosocial research.Transfusion · 2022Article
- Using automation to manage donor engagement and fine-tune supply and demand during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.Transfusion and apheresis science : official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis · 2022Article
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- Transfusion-Associated Hyperkalemic Cardiac Arrest in Neonatal, Infant, and Pediatric Patients.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Review
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an acute blood shortage for medical transfusions, exacerbating an already tenuous blood supply system in the United States, contributing to the public health crisis, and raising deeper questions regarding emergency preparedness planning for ensuring blood availability. However, these issues around blood availability during the pandemic are related primarily to the decline in supply caused by reduced donations during the pandemic rather than increased demand for transfusion of patients with COVID-19.The challenges to ensure a safe blood supply during the pandemic will continue until a vaccine is developed, effective treatments are available, or the virus goes away. If this virus or a similar virus were capable of transmission through blood, it would have a catastrophic impact on the health care system, causing a future public health emergency that would jeopardize the national blood supply.In this article, we identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood supply adequacy, discuss the public health implications, propose recovery strategies, and present recommendations for preparing for the next disruption in blood supply driven by a public health emergency.
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