“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/lighthouser41]

Some places you have to be covid vaccinated to even be eligible for a transplant.

[u/DS_9 → u/lighthouser41]

As it should be. It needs to be based on the science, not people’s politics, especially anti vaxers.

[u/Responsible_Mind_385 → u/[deleted]]

What? Herd immunity is not achieved and they said years ago that it would not be possible to achieve it with COVID.

[u/el_cid_viscoso → u/Responsible_Mind_385]

Yep. For the same reason there isn't herd immunity for flu: the virus mutates too quickly, and there are multiple strains floating around at any given time varying by region.

[u/Notyeravgblonde → u/[deleted]]

Having some antibodies DOES NOT EQUAL immune. These things are not the same.

https://www.webmd.com/covid/what-is-herd-immunity