GOP bill would require blood donor’s COVID vaccination status disclosure
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GOP bill would require blood donor’s COVID vaccination status disclosure

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A Louisiana Republican state lawmaker wants to require anyone in the state donating blood to disclose their COVID vaccination status, and wants to allow blood donation recipients to be given a choice of blood from donors who have or have not been vaccinated against the deadly virus. The bill reads: "Any person who collects human blood donations for the purpose of providing blood for human blood transfusion shall require blood donors to disclose whether the blood donor has received a COVID-19 vaccine or a messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine during the donor's lifetime." "Amid vaccine skepticism and blood shortages, House Bill 115 would require asking the COVID-19/mRNA vaccine status of blood donors, providing some patients a choice to use blood from the unvaccinated," Wyoming's WyoFile reported in February. The news outlet notes, "multiple blood transfusion groups and the FDA say there is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines harm people via blood transfusions." The sponsor of the Wyoming bill, Republican Rep. Sarah Penn, told WyoFile, “Many have strived to keep their bodies free of this technology.” In Kentucky, Republican state Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker's bill, HB 163, requires disclosure of COVID vaccination status and the name of the COVID vaccine manufacturer.

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