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Mayo Clinic officials say a nationwide blood shortage is impacting local operations.

Mayo Clinic officials say a nationwide blood shortage is impacting local operations.

American Red Cross of Michigan is putting out the call for O Positive and O Negative blood.

(Getty Images) Health care systems across the nation have suffered from blood shortages since the beginning of the pandemic, and although supplies have balanced out since then, some hospitals are still dealing with concerning deficits. But now that millions of Americans are getting vaccinated against COVID-19, health care professionals want the public to know it’s OK to donate your blood after getting jabbed. The American Red Cross said anyone who has received the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines can donate their blood at any point after vaccination with no waiting ...

Indiana Marine donates kidney to stranger after seeing Facebook post Laura Arwood, Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune via the AP March 8 When the staff sergeant decided to answer her friend’s Facebook post, she had no idea her organ would be going to a Marine veteran. (Antony-22/Wikimedia Commons) Jennifer Landry has always donated blood and always wanted to donate bone marrow. But before she had the chance, she saw a Facebook post from one of her friends. “O positive kidney donor needed,” the post relayed. Landry, who has Type O-positive blood, decided she might as well try to see if she ...