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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day ago‘please schedule and attend an appointment’, which seems wild that so many people book a time then don’t show up. Yeah that’s fucked, lol
I’m surprised to hear that america has a shortage of donors because i heard that the UK buys blood from America due to our own shortage of donors.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 day ago
From the United States perspective, less blood in reserve drives up prices for the population, so it seems to jive with healthcare as a whole there. I know Canada was buying plasma from them as well in the before times, but I’m not sure about that any more.
Several new plasma donation clinics have opened up to collect from people with more common blood types. It’s interesting to hear the UK ships blood in from the west at all. I would have figured there would be closer options available. Unless Brexit also made that more difficult too.
I understand the necessity of shipping blood around, but it sure would be nice if everywhere had enough donors to keep the blood in country. Though I suppose even in such a utopia, gold blood would still be sent around the world when necessary.