Vermont faces an emergency blood shortage from summer donation lull

Donors give blood in Rutland, Vt., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)Alex Blair received so many blood transfusions during her leukemia treatment that she lost count after 100. The Cambridge, Vt., native received multiple types of blood products daily just to survive before her stem cell transplant in 2019.“By the time that you need the blood, you usually feel pretty crappy,” she said. “You kind of feel super tired all the time. And then right after you get th