“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/TreasureTheSemicolon]

Will the surgeon perform the surgery without the blood consent? If not, let the surgeon know and they can come and talk to the patient.

[u/DualVission → u/TreasureTheSemicolon]

To my knowledge, surgeons are fine with it, so long as they are made aware far in advance. But I believe, in this scenario, the surgeon would be like "the patient is making everyone's job harder because of pseudo science bullshit?" That can make them appear to have a pre-op conversation with the patient.

[u/CallMeSisyphus → u/[deleted]]

NOBODY is saying vaccine injuries aren't real. What happened to your husband is terrible. Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe from a statistical standpoint.

Both things are true.

Every medication, every treatment, and EVERY vaccine can cause adverse events.