Violent crime adding to severe blood shortage at local hospitals and last updated 2021-07-13 05:06:46-04 HAMPTON ROADS, Va. â The recent uptick in violent crime has area hospitals responding to an unusually high number of traumas. This comes as the nation faces a severe shortage of blood. As more gunshot victims flood into hospitals, trauma cases go up - and so does the demand for blood, with Virginiaâs ERs seeing a 10% jump in demand this year. âThis is [an] unprecedented shortage that we've never seen before,â said Dr. Daniel Munn, the chief of surgery at Riverside Regi...