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throwaway27448today at 2:49 PM4 repliesview on HN

I don't get the sense we have any standards for actually vetting the blood that's donated, which is deeply concerning


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ch4s3today at 2:56 PM

We do test the blood, but they also do coarse grained screenings like this to avoid some level of waste on intake.

ch4s3today at 2:56 PM

We do test the blood, but they also do coarse grained screenings like this to avoid some level of waste on intake. It's like having client and server side validation.

account42today at 2:56 PM

We do, they are just not cheap enough to do on individual donations so you have to throw away a big batch every time they catch something.