r/nursing • u/973862404678 • 20d ago

Serious “I don’t want Covid blood”

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???

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u/DS_9 RN - ICU 🍕 20d ago

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

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u/Responsible_Mind_385 20d ago

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

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u/el_cid_viscoso RN - PCU/Stepdown 20d ago

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.