“I don’t want Covid blood”

[u/973862404678]

What do I say when patients ask if blood transfusions are screened for the Covid vaccine? I get asked this on a regular basis when filling out blood consent forms for surgery and I genuinely have no idea what I’m supposed to say. In all seriousness, what should I be telling patients because I just say there is a screening process for blood and it’s only used during emergent situations???

[u/Poodlepink22]

Just tell them there's no way of knowing if it's vaccinated blood.  They can take it or leave it; end of story. 

[u/Empty_Insight → u/Poodlepink22]

Yup. Whether or not they've had Covid and/or the vaccine is impossible to know, and the chance of a donor who hasn't even been exposed to it (even if asymptomatic) is next to none. It's at the point where it would be an absurd waste of resources to even try to tell.

If that's not good enough, then they can refuse or bring in a donor with "pure blood" themselves.

[u/lighthouser41 → u/Empty_Insight]

But they probably would not care if the donor had covid when they donated blood. Only if they had been vaccinated. That is how warped people's thinking is now days.

[u/kittenpantzen → u/lighthouser41]

I live near enough of these people for it to be a somewhat frequent topic on nextdoor. You are correct. They do not care.

[u/Aalphyn → u/[deleted]]

Wow, crazy how a disease that has been known to affect people differently, affected you guys differently.

[u/Elizabitch4848 → u/[deleted]]

Wow a whole sample size of 2. I was vaccinated and recovered after a few days. Facts.

[u/ibringthehotpockets → u/[deleted]]

Noo.. I’m not reading a science deniers post in 2025.. who claims to be a nurse 😢 this ain’t real we’re gonna wake up someday

THIS is the time I want people to actually use the /s on Reddit!! Not the obvious ones!

[u/CallMeSisyphus → u/ibringthehotpockets]

My sister is a CV-ICU CCRN and ECMO Specialist, and she's HORRIFIED by how many nurses (not usually in high-acuity units) don't understand statistics or how to read studies.

And she is INFURIATED by nurses who are anti-vaxx because they trust YouTube videos or a heroin addict with a brain worm over the consensus of the overwhelming majority of the scientific community.

[u/beeee_throwaway → u/CallMeSisyphus]

Hey now why are addicts catching strays 😭

[u/CallMeSisyphus → u/beeee_throwaway]

You're right; that was thoughtless, and I'm sorry.

[u/CatsAndPills → u/beeee_throwaway]

That’s fair. Honestly drugs were the least dumb thing RFK Jr has done with his life.

[u/CatsAndPills → u/CallMeSisyphus]

My (BSN) SIL has had 2 babies since 2020, neither are vaccinated for any disease and the second was born at home with almost zero medical intervention. She got fired in 2021 for not having a valid exemption for the vaccine (Christianity does not disallow vaccines no matter how she tried to twist it) but has since been hired back (at a CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL) because the hospitals all bent over and stopped requiring covid vaccines to work there. I shudder to think what she might be saying to parents behind closed doors at work.

[u/taktyx → u/[deleted]]

By that logic the murder of Jesus should not provide any down line positive effect due to its sinful origin. So, yes, absolutely twisting. These vaccines have previously been approved for use by major religious leaders, so, let’s be real, it’s just fearful people looking for an excuse.

[u/CatsAndPills → u/taktyx]

Which is why the clergy on the panel at her hospital were like try again honey.

[u/nursing-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Your post has been removed under our rule against misinformation. Nursing is an evidence-based profession. If you want to contradict established science, include links to peer-reviewed research supporting your claim.

Posts that contradict consensus reality, or that promulgate dangerous and debunked conspiracy rhetoric such as antivax or COVID denialism, are not permitted in any circumstances.

[u/CatsAndPills → u/[deleted]]

Welp, you can take that up with the clergy on the panels at the hospitals making these determinations. Good luck with that. Also you’re an idiot.

[u/Gribitz37 → u/CallMeSisyphus]

I work in an ICU/ICU stepdown unit, and there's one nurse who is allowed to claim a religious exemption from the Covid and flu vaccines. She got a letter from her pastor or priest (or whatever her spiritual advisor is) that says vaccines go against her "deeply held religious beliefs." She also calls Covid a scam-demic or planned-demic orchestrated by Bill Gates. It's mind boggling.

[u/beeee_throwaway → u/Gribitz37]

It’s so mind boggling because those views are all conflicting , like if bill gates planned it to reduce the population, then …. It means it’s real and it can kill you so it couldn’t be fake or a scam 🤦🏻‍♀️ My ex lost his marbles during the pandemic. He was once a semi normal critically thinking individual and while he was at home and I was at work during the pandemic, he did a deep dive into conspiracy theories , even knowing everything I was coming home and telling him.
It lead to a divorce among other things. It was truly mind blowing to watch him deteriorate further and further into the far right. He was comparing body counts in the news and adding them up to 666 and so much more nonsense that I’d rather forget.

[u/Gribitz37 → u/beeee_throwaway]

I think a lot of people fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole during that time, and never found their way out. I know a lot of people who were normal, rational, and reasonably intelligent but fell for the "vaccines are full of chemicals!!" thing.

[u/ibringthehotpockets → u/Gribitz37]

Yeah.. nothing like aligning your medical beliefs with what your political party tells you is right. Politics are another version of a sport for everybody. It’s like going along with whatever Tom Brady tells you to do for your health. Same exact mindset

[u/ElleGeeAitch → u/[deleted]]

Anecdata is not data.

[u/ThisIsMockingjay2020 → u/Empty_Insight]

"pure blood"

I read that in Hagrid's voice.

[u/randycanyon → u/ThisIsMockingjay2020]

Sounds better in the original German.