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@Brad A concern about letting infected people donate blood (not to mention organs) has been at the back of my mind for a while now.

Then there's that estimate about the majority of people (in the US) getting Long Covid within 3-4 years...

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I suspect that many Covid Cautious people have stopped donating blood (I did), due to the lack of masking, which certainly doesn't improve things.

(1) Blood donation ban tied to mad cow disease fears lifted across Canada | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/10107923/bl is lifting a ban on from people who lived or travelled in the , or for long periods of time in the 1980s and 1990s.

says almost 30 years of research and surveillance has made it clear that people who weren’t eligible to donate under the travel criteria can do so safely.”

Global News · Blood donation ban tied to mad cow disease lifted in Quebec. Will rest of Canada follow?By The Canadian Press