Managing the Nation’s Blood Supply During the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Green (President & Chief Executive Officer, Vitalant, and President, AABB), Leo DeBiandi (Vice President, Analytics, Production and Inventory Planning, American Red Cross, and Vice Chair, AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism), Brian Gannon (President & Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, and Chair, AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism), and Dr. Claudia Cohn (Chief Medical Officer, AABB Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Director, Blood Bank Laboratory, Associate Director, Clinical Laboratories, University of Minnesota) discussed the role of blood centers during disasters in general and specifically the COVID-19 pandemic.