{"id":18449,"date":"2025-04-12T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=18449"},"modified":"2025-04-12T21:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T03:30:16","slug":"reviewing-hb-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/reviewing-hb-131\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing HB 131"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

House Bill 131<\/a> would have mandated a donor to disclose their Covid-19 mRNA vaccination status prior to donating blood. The recipient could then request that information before receiving a donation. It died in the Senate Health & Welfare Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to one legislator, the Red Cross gave a presentation and reported that testing for a Covid-19 vaccine in a donated unit could not be done but did not mention anything about a donor’s disclosure on vaccination status. According to the Red Cross, a donor is asked<\/a> on the form if they received a Covid-19 vaccination at the time of donation and to provide the records on that vaccination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning on page 3, the Senate Health & Welfare Committee did meet<\/a> with a representatives, one from the Hospital Association who declared the bill would \u201cexacerbate shortage challenges, and negatively impact patient care\u201d, and would \u201crequire creating new conceptions of informed consent and create storage issues\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Regional Director of Vitalent Blood Centers stated testing could not be done to distinguish vaccinated blood from infectious, that it was impractical to label blood on self-disclosed information, and that processing and storage expenses would be an issue. Oddly, he did say that \u201cRequiring donors to disclose vaccination status without public health benefit would deter donation and perpetuate the incorrect belief that vaccinated blood was harmful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Red Cross representative stated donated blood was regulated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), that \u201cEach question asked of a donor was verified by testing\u201d, and the \u201cFDA would need to approve the added question\u201d. According to the Red Cross website<\/a>, Covid-19 vaccination status is proven by verification of vaccination, The American Red Cross of Idaho CEO stated, \u201cscientific evidence confirmed mRNA vaccines were safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FDA does address<\/a> the issue of non-covid vaccinated blood, implying that reports<\/a> of vaccinated blood not being safe is misinformation<\/a>. \u00a7 606.121<\/a> identifies label requirements on donated blood and Covid-19 vaccination status is not included. So why does the American Red Cross even ask the question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After further discussion, the bill failed to pass the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is legitimate concern regarding this issue, receiving blood from a Covid-19 vaccinated donor. According to this 2025 study<\/a>, there were no adverse effects from vaccinated blood donations but studies<\/a> on this issue are very limited. However, a recent study<\/a> demonstrated that mRNA vaccines can lead to \u201clong-term changes in genetic structures that can provoke an inflammatory response, and lead to the onset of cancer and autoimmune disorders.\u201d Other studies confirm<\/a> these findings. The question that is not answered is whether or not those problems can be passed on through donated blood, indicating the need for further research. Many professionals have raised similar concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a reminder, another study<\/a> lead to concerns that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is pathogenic and \u201cthat widely biodistributed spike proteins, produced by mRNA and adenovector DNA gene codes, induce a wide variety of diseases.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idahoans have a legitimate concerns about receiving donated blood from Covid-19 vaccinated donors, and they are not alone<\/a>. This should continue to be an issue in the next legislative session. However, it might take more intervention at the federal level before anything will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Bill 131 would have mandated a donor to disclose their Covid-19 mRNA vaccination status prior to donating blood. The recipient could then request that information before receiving a donation. It died in the Senate Health & Welfare Committee. According to one legislator, the Red Cross gave a presentation and reported that testing for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[962,53],"class_list":["post-18449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-covid-19","tag-idaho-legislature","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18451,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18449\/revisions\/18451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}