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FDA eases restrictions on gay blood donors amid 'urgent need'
NBC "News" ^ | 4/2/2020 | Tim Fitzsimons

Posted on 04/03/2020 8:06:59 AM PDT by mykroar

Amid what it’s calling an “urgent need for blood,” the Food and Drug Administration revised its blood donor guidelines on Thursday, significantly easing the restrictions on men who have sex with men.

The new guidelines reduce the donation deferral period for sexually active gay and bisexual men from 12 months to three, meaning these otherwise healthy men will now have to abstain from same-sex sexual activity for 90 days before they are eligible to donate blood.

Other 12-month deferral periods have also been shortened under the new guidelines, including those for people who have traveled to areas with certain endemic diseases, those who have engaged in injection drug use and people who have participated in commercial sex work.

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KEYWORDS: blood; donation; fda; gay
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As NBC News reported on Wednesday, at least one gay man who tried to donate blood to give COVID-19 plasma antibodies was told that he was disqualified for 12 months because he takes Truvada to remain HIV-negative.

One person gets butt-hurt (hmmmm) and completely change donation protocols.

1 posted on 04/03/2020 8:06:59 AM PDT by mykroar
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To: mykroar

Obviously this is going to remain after the crisis.


2 posted on 04/03/2020 8:08:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: mykroar

They want to spread their death and destruction to everyone.


3 posted on 04/03/2020 8:08:11 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Under construction)
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To: mykroar

4 posted on 04/03/2020 8:08:44 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: mykroar

Guy is HIV-negative, which means at one time he was HIV+? Hence, disqualification.


5 posted on 04/03/2020 8:08:59 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: mykroar

What could go wrong?

“disqualified for 12 months because he takes Truvada to remain HIV-negative...”


6 posted on 04/03/2020 8:09:46 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: mykroar

Urgent need for what? To finally make aids a heterosexual disease?

Homosexual acts should have always remained illegal, everywhere.


7 posted on 04/03/2020 8:12:26 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: mykroar
Damn all those people to Hell.
8 posted on 04/03/2020 8:13:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: mykroar

Why do I get the feeling that HIV makes one more likely to die from this disease?


9 posted on 04/03/2020 8:15:49 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: rlmorel

Damn all those people to Hell.

Where’s Trump? This is endangering everyone’s health. Why is the president allowing it?


10 posted on 04/03/2020 8:21:52 AM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: mykroar

If there is an urgent blood supply problem, where is the appeal to the population? Where are the bloodmobiles and the blood collection stations? Why aren’t all the dictatorial governors, mayors, and county commissioners who have been quick to shut down the economy appealing to the stay at home population to “carefully” leave their homes and visit the blood donation stations the government, hospitals and Red Cross have set up throughout the community? Why isn’t Fauci using his ample press time to appeal for blood donations?

If there were really a national blood emergency it would be easy to fix it with the establishment of publicized collection points and a strong appeal to the population which has nothing to do. Is government asleep at the switch or is this just one more media amplified social justice initiative of the left?


11 posted on 04/03/2020 8:22:03 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Morpheus2009

Another VIRUS with no cure, no vaccine.
Guess the “cope with it” med makers need more lifetime customers added to their rolls.


12 posted on 04/03/2020 8:22:47 AM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: mykroar; rlmorel

Meanwhile, the lifetime ban on blood donations from people like me who survived cancer continues. Cancer does not have civil rights, apparently.


13 posted on 04/03/2020 8:35:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Nothing personal but do you really want to donate blood? Or are you just making a point?


14 posted on 04/03/2020 8:40:07 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Rurudyne

That’s interesting isn’t it? At least 100,000 new HIV infections every year 80% man-to-man and 80% of those are under 30

So how many death sentences will it be and how many are dying annually from aids and especially age related illnesses?

Funny how we never hear about that anymore. But let’s get all worked up over a few thousand deaths from a virus from Communist China but not call it that and then blame the president for it

good Lord whatta bizarro world


15 posted on 04/03/2020 8:40:25 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Morpheus2009

THis guy had a mild case and recovered quickly, and I wonder if the Truvada actually helped that, as it is a drug that suppresses the HIV virus .


16 posted on 04/03/2020 8:41:58 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: rlmorel
well I have donated over 7 gallons...this makes me so mad that they'll have to beg me from now on....

why do your civic duty when they just throw it back in your face...

blood shortage?...well its the govt that saw to that...

17 posted on 04/03/2020 8:42:53 AM PDT by cherry
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"dying annually from aids"

have to re-read that ...at first I thought it said dying "anally"...

18 posted on 04/03/2020 8:45:20 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m under a lifetime ban because I was stationed in Germany in the early to mid-eighties.


19 posted on 04/03/2020 8:46:55 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: mykroar

I would never get a transfusion, unless death was imminent.


20 posted on 04/03/2020 8:49:12 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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