(NBC News) – Blood banks nationwide are in a precarious position this January, National Blood Donor Month.
“We have about a two day supply right now,” says Dr. Claudia Cohn, Chief Medical Officer of the Association of American Blood Banks.
Between the holidays and inclement weather winter is typically a tough season. Now it’s compounded by the pandemic.
“We need everyone who can to go out and donate a unit of blood,” Dr. Cohn says. “We know that we’re asking a lot because everyone is exhausted. But we need you to just dig deep.”
That’s especially true in some of the hardest-hit areas, like Southern California.
shadows and he spilled a lot of american blood. he was the secret architect of a long campaign against u.s. troops in iraq after the 2003 invasion, killing hundreds back then his face was barely known but over the last few years soleimani had gotten bolder showing photographs of himself on battlefields around the middle east, issuing statements his pride and increasing profile may have made him easier to track down and kill there was talk in iran soleimani might be a future president or perhaps even a supreme leader today the man who has that role, iran s top ayatollah, visited soleimani s family and promised severe revenge. the most immediate concern is in baghdad where shiite militia leaders loyal to soleimani, the same militias that for days attacked the u.s. embassy, will take to the streets tomorrow to mourn and show their rage. richard joins us now from iraq where our team is hearing
to reporting and whistle blowers. we don t know much else. it would be helpful to have the president s tax returns which have been requested under u.s. law but are being blocked in court. today another avenue was open with the manhattan district attorney demanding the tax returns for the last few years. what else is there? what are the financial arrangements with jared kushner. after he visited saudi arabia, the two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. swapping stories and planning strategy. today the united states, our country, finds itself at the point where the president is threatening war, threatening to put american lives, the lives of american service members, american blood, american treasure on the line for the guy who hacked jamal khashoggi to death for a regime that spends lots of money at his hotels. joining me now, ben rhodes, former deputy national security advisor under president obama. he is now an msnbc political
for 500 rooms at trump s d.c. hotel. those are little snippets thanks to reporting and whistle blowers. we don t know much else. it would be helpful to have the president s tax returns which have been requested under u.s. law but are being blocked in court. today another avenue was open with the manhattan district attorney demanding the tax returns for the last few years. what else is there? what are the financial arrange wmts jared kushner. after he visited saudi arabia, the two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. swapping stories and planning strategy. today the united states, our country, finds itself at the point where the president is threatening war, threatening to put american lives, the lives of american service members, american blood, american treasure on the line for the guy who hacked jamal khashoggi to death for a regime that spends lots of money at his hotels. joining me now, ben rhodes, former deputy national security
this white house and this cabinet over this meeting with the taliban. take me inside what at different times this week has seemed like maybe pence aligning himself with bolton who sounds like he was aghast based on that quote about what the taliban leaders would represent at camp david. terrorist swathed in american blood. no surprise that after a big public relations mess the person who disagreed with donald trump publicly is out. and you also have someone who never really built a rapport with president trump on a personal level and had real policy disagreements. i ve been in touch with ambassador bolton all day and with his allies and picture painted by him and people in his inner circle, it reached a breaking point, culmination of frustrations with the president s position not only on afghanistan but on north korea, his approach to foreign policy in general and the taliban meeting, the proposal to come at camp david, it really broke with