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Red Cross declares national blood crisis amid summer shortage; counties hosting drives · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Red Cross declares national blood crisis amid summer shortage, counties
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  Speaker 1: hosting drives. Written by Shaw Local News Network, this article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. The American Red Cross has declared a national
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  Speaker 1: blood crisis for only the second time in its history
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  Speaker 1: and is asking donors to act immediately. The organization said Monday,
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  Speaker 1: blood donations have fallen to a four year summer low,
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  Speaker 1: worsening this season's emergency blood shortage that the Red Cross
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  Speaker 1: declared earlier this month. According to a news release from
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  Speaker 1: the Red Cross, all blood types are needed, but the
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  Speaker 1: situation is especially dire for TYPO blood, and the Red
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  Speaker 1: Cross said it is now limiting distributions of those blood
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  Speaker 1: products to hospitals. The supply of Type OH positive blood
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  Speaker 1: has dropped below a one day supply. The Red Cross
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  Speaker 1: said extreme heat, poor air quality, and widespread food borne
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  Speaker 1: illnesses continue to contribute to lower donor turnout this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Despite thousands of people who have stepped up since the
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  Speaker 1: emergency shortage was declared, donations are not keeping pace with
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  Speaker 1: hospital demand and the situation is escalated. According to the release,
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  Speaker 1: this summer has brought a number of unique challenges that
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  Speaker 1: have placed additional strain on our blood supply, creating growing
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  Speaker 1: concerns for hospitals and the patients who rely on life
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  Speaker 1: saving transfusions, said Paul Sullivan, Senior vice president of donor
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  Speaker 1: Services for the Red Cross. If just three more donors
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  Speaker 1: gave at each blood drive this summer, we could help
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  Speaker 1: the blood supply rebound and ensure hospitals have the blood
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  Speaker 1: products they need throughout the remainder of the season. Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: said appointments can be booked through the blood donner app
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  Speaker 1: at redcrossblood dot org or by calling one eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: Red Cross when eight hundred seventy three three two seven
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven. The lease said. The Red Cross said all
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  Speaker 1: who give by Friday will receive a Fandango movie ticket
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  Speaker 1: by email up to a fifteen dollars ticket price and fees,
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  Speaker 1: and those who give August first to thirty one will
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  Speaker 1: receive a twenty dollars Amazon gift card by email. The
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  Speaker 1: release listed upcoming donation opportunities from July twenty seventh to
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  Speaker 1: August fifteenth. Grundy County drives are set for nine am
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  Speaker 1: to two pm August first at American Legion Post two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four to twelve West Washington Street and
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  Speaker 1: ten am to three pm August seventh at the Morris
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  Speaker 1: Municipal Services Facility, seven hundred North Division Street, both in
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  Speaker 1: Morris Kine County. A drive is scheduled for eleven am
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  Speaker 1: to four pm August twelfth at Advocate Sherman Hospital fourteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty five N. Randall Road in Elgin, and ten am
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  Speaker 1: to two pm July twenty seventh at Sportsplex and Athletics
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  Speaker 1: one Thy four hundred Foundry Street in Saint Charles Kendall County.
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  Speaker 1: A drive is set for nine am to two pm
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  Speaker 1: July thirty first at the Oswego Public Library alone seven
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  Speaker 1: eleven Reading Drive. Lassel County. Drives are scheduled for eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty am to twelve thirty pm August first at the
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  Speaker 1: farm Ridge Township Building, two hundred and twenty eight W.
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  Speaker 1: Penn in Grand Ridge, Noon to five pm August fourth
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  Speaker 1: at Carpenter's Local one seventy four one thousand and one
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  Speaker 1: Boyce Memorial Drive, and nine thirty am to two thirty
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  Speaker 1: pm August sixth at First Baptist Church fourteen zero one
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  Speaker 1: State Street, both in Ottawa, noon to five thirty pm
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  Speaker 1: August fifth, and eight am to one pm August fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: at the Illinois Valley Chapter Donation Center, fifteen thirty fourth
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  Speaker 1: Street in Peru, nine am to one pm August sixth
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  Speaker 1: at Streeter Park Place, four zero six Hickory Street, and
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  Speaker 1: eleven am to four pm August twelfth at Reading Township Hall,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty South Illinois Street, both in Streeter, and
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  Speaker 1: one thirty pm to five thirty pm July twenty seventh
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  Speaker 1: at United Methods Church, four twenty three Wapana Street in Tonica.
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  Speaker 1: Will County drives are set for nine am to two
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  Speaker 1: pm August third at the bowling Brook Community Center, two
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  Speaker 1: High hundred and one Canterbury Lane, and one pm to
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  Speaker 1: six pm August third at the American Red Cross twelve
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  Speaker 1: ninety three Wyndham Parkway in Romoville. The Red Cross set
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  Speaker 1: its supplies about forty percent of the nation's blood and
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  Speaker 1: depends on volunteers and public donations to deliver its mission.
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  Speaker 1: This article was reformatted from a press release using artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: A Shaw Local editor verified the information, edited the article,
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  Speaker 1: and approved it before publication.