Though the pause on medical procedures due to the pandemic is ending, residents in need of surgery are feeling the impact of a nationwide shortage of blood. Karen McIntosh, for one, is in need of surgery for “an aortic aneurysm,” she said. Doctors have told her the procedure could take 13 hours. It was scheduled for last week, but a call from her surgeon put it on hold. “It’s gonna be a really long surgery,” she said. “There was a national blood shortage and he was gonna have to postpone my surgery for four weeks.”She’s not alone. “Patients with cancer, with...

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