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While Texas continues to feel the effects of COVID-19 with new cases climbing every day, healthcare workers worry about an altogether different victim of the pandemic: the blood supply. As people continue to stay and work from home to minimize the risk of spreading the virus, this also means that people are not donating blood, whether it be in person at a donation center or not holding big blood drive events as schools, businesses and churches do throughout the year. According to the Dallas Morning News, the area’s blood supply dropped by almost 40 percent in May.
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