NEW YORK (WBNG) — The New York State Department of Health is urging eligible New Yorkers to donate blood this January.<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Health, there is an urgent need for blood donations that was driven by declining donations during the holiday, inclement weather and the impact of a severe flu season.<\/p>\n
The New York Blood Center recently declared a blood emergency, saying the organization has seen a nearly 40% drop in donations.<\/p>\n
The American Red Cross has also alerted to a growing risk of blood shortage and are calling on community members to become a donor or to make an appointment.<\/p>\n
If you are looking to donate blood, you can visit either the website of the American Red Cross<\/a> or the New York Blood Center<\/a> to find a location near you.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WBNG) — The New York State Department of Health is urging eligible New Yorkers to donate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31897,38451,39619,44448,9,35506,11,10,49,2566,51,50,10296,3904],"class_list":["post-95031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-american-red-cross","tag-blood-donation","tag-department-of-health","tag-donate-blood","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-blood-center","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-department-of-health","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-wbng","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}