The virus doesn't live in your blood, it lives in your respiratory system, it isn't transmitted by blood They neither have this test at the blood bank nor need it So first of all this is false Second of all if it were true it would be a reprehensible thing to do https://twitter.com/vL0k0/status/1237117540297572354 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Not to mention that if you've read anything about the history of infectious disease in blood donation, they do not in fact "have to" test for anything except HIV (and maybe one other thing), and that's bc of hard fought regulations.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Like this person is just assuming the infection control systems in health work the way they imagine they should so they feel safe and in fact that is really so very much not the case. Donated blood is always a major risk factor because they can't afford to test for everything
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
In fact if they removed all blood with pathogens that might kill someone we'd have a catastrophic blood shortage. It's one of the reasons the LGBT blood donation bans are so insulting, because they know they're not taking "pure" blood
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well yeah there's a certain amount of unavoidable risk in blood transfusion not just with germs but with reactions (the ABO and Rh blood typing system is just scratching the surface of blood protein interactions)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The whole idea is they only do it if your life is endangered enough to justify it, that's the case with all transplants and transfusions
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
When you donate blood the last step the Red Cross does is gives you two bar code stickers (USE MY BLOOD/DO NOT USE MY BLOOD). You put one bar code on the sheet, and the other on a discard area. DNUMB will still be tested for a bunch of diseases.
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I have literally never had that option when donating blood and I've been doing it off and on for roughly 15 years.
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They don't do it anymore, it was instituted after the AIDS crisis and discontinued when I was on college
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EricNonymous and
The idea was to try to combat stigma, but no one ever actually used it
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