Vox Sanguinis International Forum on Hospital Transfusion Services' Response to COVID‐19

Question 1 Demographics: a. Beer Yaakov, Israel. b. Large academic medical center. c. 956 beds. d. 9034 RBC units issued in 2019, approximately 9000. e. 4831 confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases and 17 deaths (March 31, 2020, 12:40 pm, data from the Israeli Ministry of Health). f. 9,136,000 inhabitants. g. The spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Israel is still increasing, but as of yesterday the rate of increase is declining sharply (from almost 30% of samples tested per day at the peak to 12% yesterday).