{"id":83663,"date":"2026-01-31T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/winter-weather-compounds-vermonts-shortage-of-blood-donations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:32:34","slug":"winter-weather-compounds-vermonts-shortage-of-blood-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/winter-weather-compounds-vermonts-shortage-of-blood-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather compounds Vermont\u2019s shortage of blood donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo via Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The recent winter storm and extreme cold have worsened an already severe shortage of donated blood, according to the American Red Cross\u2019s Northern New England Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, following a winter storm that <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/01\/26\/snowed-in-unless-youre-skiing-vermont-schools-close-as-slopes-fill-up\/\">dumped up to 20 inches of snow<\/a> across Vermont, the Red Cross canceled <strong>i<\/strong>ts blood drives in the state, forgoing the collection of 47 units of blood, according to Jennifer Costa, the New England region\u2019s communications director for the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for blood does not stop for Mother Nature, but if it is unsafe for staff or donors to get there, we will cancel a drive,\u201d Costa said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-light-blue-background-color has-background\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1c1b4f74 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data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a8py9-level-of-flu-activity-through-january-3-1-300x207.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a8py9-level-of-flu-activity-through-january-3-1-1200x826.png\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- .featured-image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/author\/olivia-gieger\/\">Olivia Gieger<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-01-13T18:06:36-05:00\">January 13, 2026, 6:06 pm<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2026-01-14T10:12:42-05:00\">January 14, 2026, 10:12 am<\/time>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-wrapper --><br \/>\n\t<\/article>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That cancellation compounded an existing national shortage.\u00a0On Jan. 20, the organization reported a 35% drop in its blood supply throughout January, compared to a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Some Vermont hospitals are beginning to see the downstream effects of this reduction. Saisha Branchaud, who directs Rutland Regional Medical Center\u2019s pharmacy operations, said the hospital started to experience the shortage Wednesday, when a shipment of platelets the hospital had been expecting did not arrive.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>When that happens, the medical center must find other ways to manage patients in need of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK560632\/\">platelet transfusion<\/a>, which often includes transferring them to other hospitals. Platelets, which are a part of the blood, are essential to stop bleeding and are often given to patients who have autoimmune issues, cancers or other factors that prevent them from clotting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If all hospitals in a region experience the same blood shortages, \u201ca decision would need to be made about who we need to save these platelets for,\u201d Branchaud said.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals in the UVM Health network, which includes the flagship medical center in Burlington, Porter Hospital in Middlebury and Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, have not yet seen impacts of the shortage, according to network spokesperson Phillip Rau. However, the hospitals \u201c\u200bare aware of and monitoring the situation,\u201d he wrote in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Rau added that a broader decline of blood donors has meant the \u201chospitals and health systems have become very adept at managing blood supplies and ensuring patients don\u2019t see negative impacts, like changes in scheduled procedures, treatments or care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Nearly all of Vermont\u2019s hospitals are reliant on the Red Cross for blood, since none have the on-sight facilities needed to process donated blood. Dartmouth Health, across the border in Lebanon, New Hampshire, does have these capabilities, and its Vermont partner hospitals receive blood through Dartmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Some winter dips in blood supply are typical, as the holiday season curbs some donations, but this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/01\/13\/vermont-sees-increase-in-flu-as-cases-around-the-country-surge\/\">particularly virulent flu season<\/a> and winter storms have led to a more drastic dip in the number of donors, Branchaud and Costa explained.<\/p>\n<p>With a shelf life of 42 days, blood is fairly easy to move around regions based on need. Usually, Vermonters\u2019 relative resilience to winter weather allows the state to emerge as a source of donated blood for other regions when they are slammed by storms, Costa said. However, this most recent storm affected such a vast stretch of the country that the shortage spans nationally. Nationwide, the Red Cross needed to cancel nearly 500 blood drives, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/about-us\/news-and-events\/news\/2026\/severe-winter-weather-intensifying-severe-blood-shortage--more-t.html\">release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though this year\u2019s shortage is more pronounced, it fits into a larger pattern of declining donations, attributed to both climatic emergencies and a changing culture. Costa said the number of people giving blood to the Red Cross nationally has dropped by 300,000 since 2019, which she attributed to a shift toward remote work and away from communal congregating. The number of Red Cross blood donors has dropped from 3.7 million in 2003 to 2.1 million in 2022, Costa added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>In both January 2024 and 2022, the Red Cross experienced critically low blood donation levels, she said. In January 2024, Vermont had to forgo 28 units of blood \u2014 this January\u2019s shortage is nearly double that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross\u2019s Northern New England branch is now urging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/local\/me-nh-vt.html?srsltid=AfmBOooPSdj1-oOqg7el4SjoNvNRHzt-hkJp2h8Tr3yVlqe74svJISly\">Vermonters to help the deficit<\/a> in supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very real world consequences to a shortage, and without blood, hospitals are going to have to make very difficult decisions that nobody wants to make,\u201d Costa said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<section id=\"block-16\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\">\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\t\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\t\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '298080038837837');\n\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView', {\"page_title\":\"Winter weather compounds Vermontu2019s shortage of blood donations\",\"user_role\":\"guest\",\"event_url\":\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/01\/28\/winter-weather-compounds-vermonts-shortage-of-blood-donations\",\"post_type\":\"post\",\"post_id\":640777});\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/01\/28\/winter-weather-compounds-vermonts-shortage-of-blood-donations\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo via Adobe Stock The recent winter storm and extreme cold have worsened an already severe shortage of donated blood, according to the American Red Cross\u2019s Northern New England Region.\u00a0 On Monday, following a winter storm that dumped up to 20 inches of snow across Vermont, the Red Cross canceled its blood drives in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow2JLhCw:productID":"","maa_idioma":"","maa_pais":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2725],"tags":[10100,16696,6362,8287,16697,7670,7393],"class_list":["post-83663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-blood","tag-compounds","tag-donations","tag-shortage","tag-vermonts","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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