{"id":18672,"date":"2021-08-17T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18672"},"modified":"2021-08-17T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:28:40","slug":"tainted-blood-covid-skeptics-request-blood-transfusions-from-unvaccinated-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18672","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tainted\u2019 Blood: Covid Skeptics Request Blood Transfusions From Unvaccinated Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s roiling tensions over vaccination against covid-19 have spilled into an unexpected arena: lifesaving blood transfusions.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0nearly 60%\u00a0of the eligible U.S. population fully vaccinated, most of the nation\u2019s blood supply is now coming from donors who have been inoculated, experts said. That\u2019s led some patients who are skeptical of the shots to demand transfusions only from the unvaccinated, an option blood centers insist is neither medically sound nor operationally feasible. Continue reading the article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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