chromium
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The entirety of the blood doesn't matter if you get THAT ONE BAG, does it? Is that one bag marked so it can easily be thrown out? Or does it look exactly like all the other blood?
Again, why add the risk if we don't absolutely HAVE to?
the only time they ever throw out blow from an entire drive site is when the tainted blood gets past the screening and testing. This hasn't happened since 2008
An individual risk assessment if done properly will not only screen out most of the 30,000 donors who are gay men newly infected with HIV, but also most of the 10,000 who are newly infected heteros and who are currently not screened out. The rest will be caught by testing. In addition to that, the red cross gets an extra 150,000 donors a year who are not infected