A number of countries don't allow people who have just been vaccinated to give blood, as well as banning those in recovery from coronavirus.
A number of countries don't allow people who have just been vaccinated to give blood, as well as banning those in recovery from coronavirus. With others simply staying home as new infections rise https://www.reuters.com/world/india/beyond-delta-scientists-are-watching-new-coronavirus-variants-2021-08-08, doctors say donor pools have shrunk to alarmingly low levels, menacing urgent operations.
"There have been increasing times when hospitals notify us of postponement of surgeries or treatments and crowding due to lack of blood," Park said. "Due to the COVID situation, not many people are donating blood so there is not enough and some surgeries have to be postponed," said Piya Kiatisewi, a bone caner surgeon at Lerdsin Hospital in Bangkok.Like South Korea, Russia prohibits blood donations from the fully vaccinated - but for a whole month, not just seven days. It also doesn't accept blood from those in the middle of COVID-19 vaccination cycle.
France's blood supply agency, the Etablissement Francais du Sang , said stocks were too tight for comfort. It said there are 85,000 red blood cell bags in reserve, below a comfortable level of 100,000 or more. In Greece,"People are afraid to go and donate blood to hospitals because of the coronavirus", said Konstantinos Stamoulis, scientific director of Hellenic National Blood Center in Athens."There are days when there is a reduction of up to 50% in blood donations compared to 2019," he said.
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