The American Red Cross stated Type O negative blood and platelet donations are especially needed to help continue providing care for patients in the coming weeks.

In the Chicago area, the American Red Cross​ collects about 1,000 units of blood per day. It sounds like a lot, but the need for blood donations is huge and constant.

The Red Cross mission to prevent and relieve human suffering continues even when there's not an emergency, from installing smoke alarms to collecting blood donations, and being in a city the size of Chicago,

People with the disease often get sudden, debilitating bouts of pain. McKinley was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when he was just 2 weeks old. "What they told me was that McK