Lines rapidly got so long at one Orlando blood bank, OneBlood, asked people to make appointments, instead. The organization said in a statement that the blood center is at full capacity and is asking donors to assist over the next several days to assist replenish the blood supply.
It also added that many people packed our donor centers and blood drives eager to donate and assist replenish the blood supply. Your prompt response to assist patients in need was unusual and remarkable.
Orlando Health, an area not-for-profit medical network said that they have experienced a huge outpouring of support. Local blood banks have more than 600 units of blood on hand, which is more than usual because of all the donations.
Although nearly as sudden, social media became inundated with outrage. The club that was attacked was a first choice among gay men, although there are some limitations on blood donations by sexually active men who have sex with fellow men.
It's a fundamental tenet of public health and emergency responders when there's a calamity to give some people something to do. Donating blood is nearly always Number 1 on the list, since blood shortages occur on many occasions even when there is no trouble, and blood donations assist people beyond any hasty crisis.
Some people such as transgender, bisexual, Lesbian and gay felt mainly insulted that they were excluded from assisting their own.
The Food and Drug Administration limitations don't quite amount to a ban on gay men. They were indicated to keep human immune deficiency virus which causes AIDS out of the blood supply. So the FDA asks blood banks to ban men who have had sex with another fellow man in the past year from donating blood, an instruction last year after years of expressing opposition.
Before there was blood tests for HIV in blood donations, many people in thousands caught HIV that way. By the end of 2001, at least 14,000 people became infected with HIV through blood transfusions, many of them kids.