Citing worries of shortages in the nation's blood supply as American life comes to a standstill in response to the novel coronavirus, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is calling for the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration to lift its ban on men who have had sex with men in the past year from giving blood. "There is a severe national blood shortage," Wiener said in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter March 23. "I'd love to go and give blood but as has always been the case