Hurricane Irene
During Tropical Storm Irene in the summer of 2011, Mayor Bloomberg’s warning for people to remain indoors led to the cancellation of many blood drives, which consequently resulted in a shortage of blood donations at the New York Blood Center. The New York Blood Center supplies blood for 200 hospitals in New York and usually the inventory holds enough blood to meet the needs of hospitals for three to five days. However after this tropical storm, the New York Blood Center is down to a blood reserve of only two days. This could prove critical for patients at New York hospital because of the limited number of blood. In the case of an accident, there might not have been enough blood for the victims. After Tropical Storm Irene, Bloomberg made an urgent call for New Yorkers everywhere to donate blood.
After evacuations and warnings to stay inside, due to Tropical Storm Irene, blood donation levels were at a low and many hospitals were worried there would not be enough to supply for severe accident patients. Bloomberg urges New Yorkers to donate blood after the storm.
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