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Donate Blood This Week at the Health Museum’s Community Drive

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Catherine Wendlandt
Author: Catherine Wendlandt
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A scene from the Health Museum's blood drive on March 31.

A scene from the Health Museum’s blood drive on March 31. 

With our city’s COVID-19 numbers rising and local hospitals nearing capacity, it’s more important than ever that we replenish our area’s blood banks.

Aiming to do just that, The Health Museum is hosting a community blood drive at the museum this this week, Tuesday through Thursday, to support the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, which supplies blood to 170 area hospitals and health care institutions.

The drive will be taking place each day from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., however it is by appointment only. You can sign up here.

The Health Museum has held previous iterations of this drive in both late March and in May.

This drive is also offering free antibody testing, and all donors will receive a T-shirt and a guest pass for two to the museum. However, the Health Museum is still temporarily closed because of the current pandemic.

10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., June 23–25. The Health Museum, 1515 Hermann Dr. For more information, click here.  




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Catherine Wendlandt
Catherine Wendlandt
A native Austinite, Catherine Wendlandt spent almost six years in the Midwest for college and graduate school at the University of Missouri (MIZ). While there, she talked about Texas and missed queso so much she had to come back.  In school, she worked as a city government reporter and page designer for the Columbia Missourian, a communications intern at a local jazz company, a food editor and later the managing editor at Vox Magazine, and a research assistant for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She's worked in Missouri, Dallas, and Barcelona, Spain, and interned for Houstonia in 2018, when she fell in love with everything about the city, except maybe the traffic and mosquitos.  When she's not at work, you can find Catherine curled up reading a good book, out exploring local parks, taking lots of sunset pictures, and trying to pet every dog she sees (in spite of the allergies).