Dwindling blood reserves: An ominous downside of COVID-19 pandemic

• Transfusion therapy is vital to ensure a healthy community. Thus, a safe and reliable reserve of blood is necessary, even in the face of widespread illness. • Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a decline in blood supply has been noticed as hospitals and communities have switched to more...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sohail, Azim, Dua, Nasim, Sundus, Hashmi, Shariq Haider
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2020.102818
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description • Transfusion therapy is vital to ensure a healthy community. Thus, a safe and reliable reserve of blood is necessary, even in the face of widespread illness. • Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a decline in blood supply has been noticed as hospitals and communities have switched to more pandemic-oriented operations. • Restricted mobility secondary to isolation and quarantine seems to be the major reason causing decline in number of donors. • Misinformation regarding transmission of coronavirus through blood along with the attitude of people towards hospitals and blood banks has also contributed to diminishing blood supplies.
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spelling pubmed-72397772020-05-21 Dwindling blood reserves: An ominous downside of COVID-19 pandemic Kumar, Sohail Azim, Dua Nasim, Sundus Hashmi, Shariq Haider Transfus Apher Sci Letter to the Editor • Transfusion therapy is vital to ensure a healthy community. Thus, a safe and reliable reserve of blood is necessary, even in the face of widespread illness. • Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a decline in blood supply has been noticed as hospitals and communities have switched to more pandemic-oriented operations. • Restricted mobility secondary to isolation and quarantine seems to be the major reason causing decline in number of donors. • Misinformation regarding transmission of coronavirus through blood along with the attitude of people towards hospitals and blood banks has also contributed to diminishing blood supplies. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7239777/ /pubmed/32487511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2020.102818 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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