MCCLURG: Hearing call-outs like that is painful for Samuel Garrett-Pate. LESLEY MCCLURG, BYLINE: Blood banks are flooding the airwaves.įRANK MCGEORGE: If you are not ill and you qualify to donate blood, please do it. Lesley McClurg from member station KQED explains. Many argue that a federal policy preventing many gay men from donating blood is driven by stigma rather than science. Yet a portion of the population is restricted from donating. Throughout the pandemic, thousands of blood drives across the country have been canceled, leaving blood supplies critically low.
