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Calls for plasma in COVID fight conflict with decades-old restriction on blood donations
Title (Dublin Core)
Calls for plasma in COVID fight conflict with decades-old restriction on blood donations
Description (Dublin Core)
The frustration of many within the LGBTQ+ community over blood donations has been especially pronounced in the middle of the pandemic. The FDA recently moved the requirements for gay men to be abstinent from 12 months to 3 months. Activists and others point out that because blood can be screened for HIV, and that the rules are outdated and don't make sense. It is tragic that those who are capable of donating blood in this moment of crisis are unable to do so based on these current regulations. It brings back images of gay men that tried to donate blood after the Pulse nightclub massacre, but were turned away.
Date (Dublin Core)
August 21, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Cindy Krischer Goodman
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Lawson Miller
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Community & Community Organizations
English
Healthcare
English
Gender & Sexuality
English
Home & Family Life
English
Social Issues
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
blood plasma
gay men
Ron DeSantis
Florida
Food and Drug Administration
Collection (Dublin Core)
LGBTQ+
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/23/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/23/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024
This item was submitted on August 23, 2020 by Lawson Miller using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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