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After a weekend ‘perfect storm’ of need, Intermountain hospital raced to find blood

Hospitals in Utah and across the nation may cancel surgeries due to blood shortages.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Karl Ebeling who goes by “farmer Karl,” makes one of his regular blood donations, something he has been doing for 35 years. Phlebotomist Erica Millet with the American Red Cross assists him inside a mobile unit parked at the Sandy Library on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.