East Texas communities are facing a significant drop in blood donations as the country goes through the “longest national blood shortage,” putting local patient care at risk in blood transfusion
Tyler Carter BloodCare Center seeing critical need for blood According to Carter BloodCare Center, blood was already low due to the pandemic now it is even lower because of the recent winter storm. (Source: kltv) By Justin Honore | March 9, 2021 at 11:30 PM CST - Updated March 10 at 3:49 AM
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The blood supply for the Tyler community is at a critical low, in what Carter BloodCare Center calls the worst situation in decades.
According to Carter BloodCare Center, blood was already low because of the pandemic. They cite restrictions in their donation center as well as canceled blood drives throughout the community as the reason. Now that shortage has gotten even worse because of the winter storm preventing people from donating blood for a week.