Bandera County contributed 140 units of blood in 2020 during the pandemic in just five blood drives. With 11 blood drives scheduled in 2021, donors can save twice as many lives this year. This includes whole blood, double red blood, and plasma donations. For every whole blood donation, three lives can be saved, and you can donate every 56 days. Platelets are cells that help stop bleeding, have a shelf life of five days and are constantly needed for traumatic injury, cancer and transplant patients. Bandera donors have already exceeded in two months the dual red blood cell donations in all of 2020! This ...