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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 Activists and others point out that because blood can be screened for HIV, and that the rules are outdated and don't make sense.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)

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-covid-plasma-donation-20200821-5o7dclrxunfhbei5way2fimbja-story.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20200824042434/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-covid-plasma-donation-20200821-5o7dclrxunfhbei5way2fimbja-story.html

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)

A screenshot of a tweet from Twitter. President Promotes Social Distancing
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/23/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/23/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
🌈LGBTQ+
Arizona State University

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”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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