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Why hospitals fear a critical blood shortage as the US reopens

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The nonprofit oversees 600 or so independent blood centers, which together provide about 60% of blood donations to US hospitals. It tracks the inventory of type O red blood cells in hospitals’ supplies (O positive is the most common blood type, while O negative is less common) as an indicator of total blood supply. Blood donations soared at the beginning of the pandemic, says Kate Fry, the CEO of America’s Blood Centers.

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