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Comment by lesuorac

While your article calls out PFAS in firefighters, there are people who for other reasons need blood letting. It's one of my biggest gripes with blood donation in the US is that those people are prohibited from donating blood because they're getting "value" from doing so (instead of having to pay somebody to draw their blood the red cross would be drawing it for free -- note, the blood isn't unusable for any other reason than drawing it provides value to the donater).

Like you have a population that must give blood by some means and regularly the various blood banks complain about a shortage and they never seem to be able to put two and two together ...

parent lesuorac 4 years ago

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