Sounds improbable to me too grey. Flu—they give you IV fluids-not usually blood. 500/day—do they have that many gun shot victims? Operations? Puzzling.
Two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon, an adult human has on the order of two gallons of blood.
Surgeries and / or trauma victims might need more: possibly (hand-waving) up to 12-16 units of blood.
Don't know about lesser procedures.
But the other issues are blood donated but rejected (e.g. certain people cannot accept blood if the donor has cytomegalovirus); and of course, donor/acceptor mismatches. Type O, and more specifically, O- is highly prized as it is a universal donor, any can receive it.
But most donors aren't O or O-.
I once got a pair of free symphony tickets for donating blood during a shortfall.
And apparently each pint of blood is sold for ~$500, I think I remember Q mentioning to look that up, or maybe it was an anon.
Sounds improbable to me too grey. Flu—they give you IV fluids-not usually blood. 500/day—do they have that many gun shot victims? Operations? Puzzling.
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sounds kinda like the tainted blood operation bubba had going at Arkansas state pens
the Arkansas blood plasma operation targeted the inmate population & many there were infected with Hep C & HIV
inmates were paid a little “walkin around money”
could be about same market potential with homeless in SF???