Dramatic drops in blood donations by younger and first-time donors in South Texas, combined with a rapidly growing population and the current surge of COVID-19 cases, have left the region facing an unprecedented blood shortage.
South Texas Blood & Tissue working with medical community to manage critically low supply
Community Labs, the nonprofit COVID-19 testing center designed to get students back into schools, is now performing tests on 350 campuses of 13 different school districts, as well as five universities.
Community Labs, which performs COVID-19 PCR tests for schools and businesses, is expanding to school districts in Laredo and San Marcos.
Community Labs, the COVID-19 rapid testing laboratory working in partnership with BioBridge Global, soon will be able to boost testing from 15,000 to 50,000 samples a day.
Day in and day out, Richard and his team collected convalescent plasma from donors who recovered from COVID-19 that were there to help and give as much as possible.
For Alicia’s family, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived just as they were embarking on a grief journey of their own.
After recovering from COVID-19, Gordon Hartman (the founder of Morgan’s Wonderland) added one more cause to the many he supports – donations of blood and COVID-19 convalescent plasma.
In 2020 alone, 3,299 donations came from Northside ISD locations – including 945 from first-time donors.
The pandemic didn’t stop Jordan Ford from saying “yes” in donating to the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center.
Through the year, Sinclair Broadcast Group in San Antonio informed the public almost daily about the ongoing and urgent need for blood and convalescent plasma through its TV stations.
Manny wasn’t hesitant to use the word “miracle” repeatedly when he described his battle with COVID-19 with members of The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.
