'If people could give blood four times a year, we would never have a shortage,' says a leader from connectforlife, which is gathering and distributing donations for survivors of the Robb Elementary mass shooting.
. The corps includes blood centers in 37 states and allows supplies to be quickly diverted to places in crisis. After the Uvalde shooting, organizations in Florida, Oklahoma, and from across the West Coast flew O-negative units over to South Texas Blood & Tissue’s central office. From there, they were shared withAnother reason the region’s blood donation network mobilized so quickly is because it had gone through a similar scenario before.
She points out that if every eligible American donated blood four times a year, the country “would never see a shortage.” But at the moment,Susan Forbes, a senior vice president at OneBlood, which runs a network of donation centers across Florida, offers similar advice. “It’s so important that people be proactive about being a donor,” she says. “We went through two mass tragedies in the past six years here, with the Pulse and Parkland shootings.
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