Several right-wing and anti-vaccine sites are promoting an international movement to open unvaccinated blood banks. Anti-vaccine conspiracists insist that blood from people who have received COVID-19 vaccinations is harmful to unvaccinated people, despite the complete absence of evidence to support their claim. The demand for “clean” or “pure” blood has had real-world consequences, such as the New Zealand parents who are delaying life-saving heart surgery for their baby until they can guarantee that the infant will not receive blood from vaccinated donors.
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Emphasizing that the Red Cross says that blood and plasma from vaccinated donors are perfectly safe is recommended. Messaging may explain that vaccine components are not transferred through blood and that antibodies produced in response to the COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 infection, or both, are present in a majority of the U.S. blood donation supply. There is no evidence that these antibodies would have any negative effect on donor recipients. Fact Checking Source(s):
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