Less than 1 percent of the blood donated in response to the Sept. 11 attacks was actually used for victims Posted by Scott Manning on February 22, 2002 | Comments (0)

Of the more than 475,000 units of blood donated after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, only 258 were actually used for disaster victims.

The Red Cross, for example, ended up discarding 17 percent of the 287,000 units it collected because the units were on the shelf, unused, for more than 42 days.Full Story...