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Get a great shirt and maybe $500 for giving blood, and help others in the process. The Arkansas Blood Institute is hosting blood drives in Saline County throughout December.
Each donor will get a chance to win $500, a new shirt, a holiday ornament, a Vudu movie rental, and a COVID-19 antibody test.
Dates and locations:
• Dec 20, 12:30 – 6:00 pm, Holland Chapel Baptist Church, no appointment needed.
• Dec 23, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm, Saline Memorial Hospital, Schedule
• Dec 23, 11:30 am – 6:00 pm, Chicken Salad Chick, Schedule
• Dec 27, 12:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Walmart Benton, Schedule
Walk-ins will be accepted as schedule allows.
All donations will received their choice of long sleeve t-shirt and a free test for COVID-19 antibodies to identify potential convalescent plasma donors. See important details below. All donations will go to local hospitals.
- While supplies last. Photo ID required.
- Donors ages age 16 or 17 need parental consent to be screened for COVID-19 antibodies and are not eligible to donate convalescent plasma.
- This test has not been FDA cleared or approved. It has been authorized by the FDA under an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) for use by authorized laboratories. The test has been authorized only for the detection of the IgG antibody against SARS-CoV-2, not for any other viruses of pathogens. Test results will be made available post-donation.
