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Blood Drive at MIT...4/11 & 4/13-15; try RapidPass it's faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Tue Apr 12 22:41:23 2016
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:39:49 -0400
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@mit.edu>
There are still appointment slots (http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/),
and volunteer slots
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1slcdlpxGfnC7uKZMLpUIcJrz8jeMV_RVKO_NMMc9VwY/edit#gid=0)
available at this week's blood drive at MIT.
However, please also note that there are new restrictions in place due
to the Zika virus. If you or your partner has traveled recently (eg.,
over Spring Break) please read the below carefully. A statement from
the Red Cross states in part:
Following the [FDA's] guidance, we have added a specific question to
our donor health history questionnaire concerning travel to or
residence in areas with local Zika virus transmission and we continue
to ask donors to self-defer, or postpone their blood donation for four
weeks, if they are at risk of Zika virus exposure.
Those risk factors include: travel to or residence in countries on the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Zika Travel
Information list (http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/index.html) within the
last four weeks; diagnosis of Zika virus infection; existence of two
or more Zika virus infection symptoms within two weeks of leaving an
area with local transmission; or sexual contact within the last four
weeks with a man who in the three months before sexual contact was
diagnosed with Zika virus infection, or traveled to or resided in an
area with local Zika virus transmission. Potential donors with any of
these risk factors should schedule their blood donation for four weeks
after the end of the defined risk periods noted above.
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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:45:20 -0400
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@mit.edu>
Subject: Blood Drive at MIT...4/11 & 4/13-15; try RapidPass it's faster
Executive Summary: There will be a blood drive at MIT on Monday 4/11 and
Wednesday 4/13 through Friday 4/15, in La Sala in the Student Center.
The drive will run from 1pm to 6pm every day but Thursday, when it will
run from 8am to 1pm (and will be closed on Tuesday).
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service. If you want to make an appointment for Monday or
Tuesday, please make it as soon as possible.
Also, the Red Cross is now offering an opportunity to complete the
reading and health questionnaire from the comfort of your home or
office, which is supposed to save you around 15 minutes at the drive
itself. To do this, visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass, but
be aware of several caveats: 1) this *must* be done the same day as your
donation 2) It cannot be done from a phone, a desktop/laptop is required
3) You will need to be able to show a copy of your form (either emailed
to yourself, or printed) at the drive 4) MIT's drives are located in zip
code 02139
Hello,
Please allow me to begin by thanking everyone who took the time to
donate or volunteer at our September drive.
There will be a blood drive at MIT on Monday 4/11 and Wednesday 4/13
through Friday 4/15, in La Sala in the Student Center. The drive will
run from 1pm to 6pm every day but Thursday, when it will run from 8am to
1pm (and will be closed on Tuesday).
Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment
for faster service. If you want to make an appointment for Monday or
Tuesday, please make it as soon as possible.
The Red Cross is now offering an opportunity to complete the reading and
health questionnaire from the comfort of your home or office, which is
supposed to save you around 15 minutes at the drive itself. To do this,
visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass, but be aware of several
caveats: 1) this *must* be done the same day as your donation 2) It
cannot be done from a phone, a desktop/laptop is required 3) You will
need to be able to show a copy of your form (either emailed to yourself,
or printed) at the drive 4) MIT's drives are located in zip code 02139
The Red Cross relies on appointments to decide how many staff to
provide on a given day. Making appointments will decrease your wait,
and make the drive run faster as a whole (even if you can only tell us
what day you want to donate, and not what time during the day.) To make
an appointment, fill out the form at:
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
If you cannot make an appointment please feel free to come to the
drive and donate anyway.
We can always use more volunteers to help out during the drive to get
people registered quickly and take some of the pressure off the Red
Cross workers. Even if you can't donate blood, you're encouraged to
donate some of your time to the drive. Some of the services that
volunteers may perform are registering donors, staffing the canteen,
and providing moral support to the donors. No previous experience is
necessary to volunteer. All these efforts are important to the
drive's success. To volunteer, send e-mail to
blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu, and someone will reply to you
shortly before the drive starts.
Blood Donation Factoids:
* Wear comfortable clothing. Wear clothing with sleeves that can easily
be rolled up above the elbow, as well as something that you will feel
comfortable in while on the bed during the donation process.
* Patients with sickle cell disease, on average, need 10-15 units of
red blood cells to treat severe complications.
If you want to forward this message, feel free as long as you are
sending it to a friend, or to a list for which it is appropriate. In
other words, feel free to forward, but please don't spam people on our
behalf. If anyone wants to get on our mailing list they can check the
appropriate box when making an appointment, or fill out the form at
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/email.html
+ The MIT Blood Drive Coordinators
If you wish to be added or removed from any of the blood drive lists,
please send an email request to blood-drive-request@mit.edu only.
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