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The incidence of mass shootings in the USA continues to increase; more than 45 000
total gun deaths occurred in 2020 alone, the most on record for years with full data
available.1 These statistics highlight increasing gun violence, one of the primary
contributors to blood shortages. Patients with gunshot wounds are 5 times more likely
to require a blood transfusion and receive 10 times more blood components than patients
with traumatic injuries that are not gunshot wounds, equating to millions of US dollars
in blood acquisition costs.
Just as important as getting involved, companies must adopt the standards into their practices. While standardization is not easy, the accomplishments over the last few years demonstrate that, with support from across the industry, it is possible.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to relax regulations preventing gay and bisexual men from donating blood. Under the new proposal, gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships will be allowed to donate blood if they have not had anal sex with another man within three months and if they had been in a
Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships will no longer be forced to abstain from sex to donate blood under federal guidelines to be proposed in coming days, ending a vestige of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis.