Washington is facing a critical shortage in blood donations this summer.
Spring and summer are always a slow time for blood donations, as people go away on vacation and break their normal routines — but this year is especially worse than others.
“We are very, very concerned about the rest of June and the entire summer, to be quite frank,” said Vicki Finson, executive vice president of Bloodworks Northwest, which supplies most of the blood to hospitals around the region. “It’s accurate to say that all of our donation sites are seeing fewer people right now than we were seeing last year at the same time.”
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