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Blood Drive at MIT...9/23 - 9/26, bring a new member of the community
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Thu Sep 19 22:52:58 2019
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:52:53 -0400
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@MIT.EDU>
Executive Summary: MIT will be holding a blood drive from Monday 9/23
through Thursday 9/26. As usual, the drive will be held in La Sala in
the Student Center. The drive will run from 1pm to 6pm every day expect
Tuesday, when it will run from 8am to 1pm.
Make an appointment (for faster service): https://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
Use RapidPass (https://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass), to speed up your
donation process, but be aware of several caveats: 1) this *must* be
done the same day as your donation 2) You will need to be able to show a
copy of your form (either emailed to yourself, or printed) at the drive
3) MIT's drives are located in zip code 02139.
Hello,
MIT will be holding a blood drive from Monday 9/23 through Thursday
9/26. As usual, the drive will be held in La Sala in the Student
Center. The drive will run from 1pm to 6pm every day expect Tuesday,
when it will run from 8am to 1pm.
Make an appointment (for faster service): https://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
As we begin the academic year, it;s always good to see familiar faces.
However, it's good to see new faces too, especially at the blood drive
where we need to replace another round of donors who have graduated. If
you have a new lab-mate or house-mate, or someone else who is new to the
MIT community, please encourage them to donate blood too.
The Red Cross is 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 https://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass, but be aware of several
caveats: 1) this *must* be done the same day as your donation 2) You will
need to be able to show a copy of your form (either emailed to yourself,
or printed) at the drive 3) 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:
https://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:
* Be sure to eat! Don't skip breakfast or lunch on the day of your
blood donation. Your body will need extra energy to donate a pint
of blood. You will also feel better after donating if you have
eaten a meal a few hours before.
* A newborn open-heart surgery, on average, will need one - four
units of red blood cells, one - two units of plasma, and one -
four units of platelets
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
https://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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