Taft Resolution 

Meet three grateful recipients:

Monique
George
Connor

• Approximately 12.6 million units of whole blood are donated in the United States each year by approximately 8 million volunteer blood donors.* 

• Whole blood is broken down into its components: red blood cells, platelets and plasma.

• The 12.6 million units of donated blood each year are broken down into more than 23 million units of blood components transfused to about 4 million patients per year.*

• A single shock-trauma victim can use 100 units of blood components in just a few hours.

• On any given day, approximately 32,000 units of Red Blood Cells are needed.*

• 25 percent of blood products are used to treat cancer patients.*

• A large portion of the plasma that is recovered from donated blood is broken down or processed into specific "derivatives" to meet the needs of people with genetic diseases such as hemophilia, primary immune deficiency and other conditions.

• Each year, plasma derivatives are used to treat thousands of individuals who are missing a factor in their blood that prevents excessive bleeding, do not have the ability to fight infections or who have experienced significant fluid loss as a result of a burn or other injury.

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