{"id":97705,"date":"2026-01-27T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97705\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:24:08","slug":"blood-donations-take-hit-after-multiple-weekends-of-snow-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97705\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood donations take hit after multiple weekends of snow | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials are urging people to donate blood in the wake of the recent winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>Miller-Keystone Blood Center says snow the past two weekends forced its locations to cancel several community blood drives. That dramatically reduced blood donations, leaving them with a critical shortage, the center said.<\/p>\n<p>Winter is already a tough time for blood collections, with holiday activities, increased travel and seasonal illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The center says it needs about 350 blood donations every day to keep up with local demand.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giveapint.org\/blood-donor-center-locations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visit the center\u2019s website<\/a> to find out how and where to give blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health officials are urging people to donate blood in the wake of the recent winter weather. Miller-Keystone Blood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,24152,47886,47887,33277],"class_list":["post-97705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-blood-donation","tag-blood-shortage","tag-community-blood-drive","tag-miller-keystone-blood-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}