Ryan Dolce is crisscrossing the country on a quest to donate platelets at every Red Cross site in America. So far, he has hit 25 out of 200.

An American Red Cross partnership with “Peanuts” rewards blood donors with a T-shirt featuring Snoopy. Blood donations have jumped since the offer, especially as the shirt goes viral on TikTok ...

The American Red Cross says donations are at a 20-year low. It says in order to shore up the need at hospitals, an extra 8,000 blood donations would have to be collected each week.

The Red Cross’s donations have fallen by almost 40%, and the supply shortage has already affected hospitals as the organization was short 7,000 units the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

The American Red Cross is sounding the alarm that the United States’ blood supply has fallen by nearly 25% since early August, to what it describes as “critically low levels.” ...

The Red Cross says that it served 17.5 million meals and snacks during the Sandy relief effort. It has used that number in responses to inquiries from New York State Attorney General Eric ...