SOURCE:  Projectcensored.org

“corporations are buying the blood of America’s poor, drawing and selling the plasma abroad in a global enterprise”

Hospitals are desperate for blood donors: more than 4,000 blood drives were canceled in the US because of the coronavirus, according to the American Association of Blood Banks.

This situation, which resulted in a loss of 130,000 donations, is unprecedented, according to Dr. Claudia Cohn, AABB’s chief medical officer and director of the blood bank at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

Meanwhile, corporations are buying the blood of America’s poor, drawing and selling the plasma abroad in a global enterprise.

A 2019 article in MintPress News identified paid blood donations as a sign of the latest stage of capitalism, with corporate blood collection agencies targeting the poor, homeless, students and even animals as a lucrative blood source ripe for harvesting. With sales of $1.4 billion in 2018, exports from the US accounted for 16.3 percent of the blood on the international market.

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