The Kindest Red Blood Drive

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California’s wildfires have strained access to essential resources, including blood. Impacting the need for blood for urgent use as well as for people living with sickle cell disease.

Blood donors who are Black play a critical role in helping people with sickle cell disease, the most common genetic blood disease in the U.S. Patients with the disease may rely on regular blood transfusions throughout their lives. The blood they receive must be the most compatible match possible from someone of the same race or similar ethnicity.

Today, there aren’t enough blood donors to meet this urgent need. By donating blood, you can make a difference in the lives of a person impacted by the California wildfires, a patient with sickle cell disease, as well as moms with complicated childbirths, people fighting cancer, accident or trauma victims being raced to emergency rooms, and many more.