How a nationwide blood shortage is affecting Oregon

The American Red Cross recently announced that blood donations are at a 20-year low. Along with the decline in donations, recent weather events disrupted planned donation drives. Angel Montes is the regional executive of donor services for the American Red Cross Cascades Region. He joins us to share more on what donations are looking like now and what this means in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Murphy is a pathologist and medical director of the Riverbend Hospital Laboratory Blood Bank. She also joins us to talk about what the shortage means at the hospital level.