How Philly area hospitals are dealing with a national shortage of blood culture bottles

About half of all people living with HIV today are over the age of 50. By 2030, older survivors could make up as much as 70% of that population.

Faced with the worst blood shortage in a decade, blood banks in the Philadelphia region are urging people to donate and to encourage others to do the same.

Men can’t give blood, or plasma for COVID patients, if they’ve had sex with men in the past 3 months. Some hope to reverse what they see as anti-gay bias.