Blood rhetoric exceeds supply. As observers gauge severity of shortage crisis and blood suppliers grasp for solutions, blood banks try to motivate confused donors.
Mixed and murky messages have bombarded the popular consciousness recently when it comes to the nation's blood supply. Blood banks are still wrangling with how to find ways to appeal to blood donors as they also try to understand why they couldn't harness the outpouring of people responding to the terrorist attack of Sept. 11.
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