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Originally Posted by wretched34
but it just seems odd that they are so quick to deny based on a questionnaire. I would expect they still test all the donated blood, because, you know, people can lie on paper. So why flat out deny people before a donation just because they are more "high risk". They could easily be turning away completely acceptable blood.
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I would assume the ratio of blood tested and failed vs blood being able to be used in high-risk donors is much too high. It takes time and money to test, so at some point it just doesn't make fiscal sense. Say in high-risk patients they're using resources just to discard 90% of it (a random number), IMO it's better to not burden the system for 10% of useable blood.