This is why they have such strict rules regarding who can give blood. People moan that they’re being discriminated against because they can’t donate blood, but unfortunately science doesn’t discriminate, it just is.
The headline is shite you need to give a timeframe alot of people will presume a year and this is from decades ago you need to make that clear
Out of all the blood transfusions done at the time, how many people would have died if that were not an option ?
It may be unpalatable, but at some point this boils down to a numbers game. Of course we need to strive for improvement, but this could still have been a net benefit.
There is a new scandal brewing on this I think with Long Covid. For about 20 years we have known that ME/CFS is transferred via the blood, so while on the one hand it was “treated” with Psychology sufferers were also banned from giving blood. That was stopped about 10 years ago and now ME/CFS patients can give blood, they shouldn’t but the NHS doesn’t stop them anymore.
Long covid patients wont know this and the NHS isn’t informing them. They are unfortunately passing their condition on to the receiver of the blood, there are 2 million long haulers of which half appear to have the ME/CFS subtype of post viral condition alongside the estimated 250k ME/CFS sufferers already in the country before the pandemic.
Hopefully in about a decades time when the medical situation around this condition has some clarity I expect there will be another scandal brewing around blood from these sufferers and people who caught it via blood transfusions. The NHS took the blood when it knew it shouldn’t.
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This is why they have such strict rules regarding who can give blood. People moan that they’re being discriminated against because they can’t donate blood, but unfortunately science doesn’t discriminate, it just is.
The headline is shite you need to give a timeframe alot of people will presume a year and this is from decades ago you need to make that clear
Out of all the blood transfusions done at the time, how many people would have died if that were not an option ?
It may be unpalatable, but at some point this boils down to a numbers game. Of course we need to strive for improvement, but this could still have been a net benefit.
There is a new scandal brewing on this I think with Long Covid. For about 20 years we have known that ME/CFS is transferred via the blood, so while on the one hand it was “treated” with Psychology sufferers were also banned from giving blood. That was stopped about 10 years ago and now ME/CFS patients can give blood, they shouldn’t but the NHS doesn’t stop them anymore.
Long covid patients wont know this and the NHS isn’t informing them. They are unfortunately passing their condition on to the receiver of the blood, there are 2 million long haulers of which half appear to have the ME/CFS subtype of post viral condition alongside the estimated 250k ME/CFS sufferers already in the country before the pandemic.
Hopefully in about a decades time when the medical situation around this condition has some clarity I expect there will be another scandal brewing around blood from these sufferers and people who caught it via blood transfusions. The NHS took the blood when it knew it shouldn’t.