Sign Up To Help Save Lives: Blood Drives Planned In Palos Verdes

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Blood donations have dropped throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and healthy donors are urged to give back this month during multiple blood drives in Palos Verdes.

Eligible people can help make sure blood banks have enough of the resource on the shelves for people who need it during several blood drives hosted by the American Red Cross.

The following blood drives are planned this month in the Peninsula:

• Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ascension Lutheran Church, 26231 Silver Spur Road
• Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 5845 Crestridge Road. Reserve a time online at redcrossblood.org and enter the sponsor code: LDSRPV.
• June 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pacific Unitarian Universalist Church, 5621 Montemalaga Drive. Reserve a time online at redcrossblood.org and enter the sponsor code: PACIFICUNITARIANCHURCH.
• June 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ascension Lutheran Church, 26231 Silver Spur Road. Visit redcrossblood.org/rapidpass to complete the pre-donation paperwork.

"The Red Cross has implemented additional precautions to ensure the safety of its donors and staff," the city said. "There is no evidence that the novel coronavirus can be transmissible by blood transfusion, and there have been no reported cases worldwide of transmissions for any respiratory virus, including the novel coronavirus."

The American Red Cross is also testing all blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies for a limited time.

"Help save lives and get insight into whether you may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus," the city said.

For more information, visit redcrossblood.org or by calling 1-800 RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

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