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Hundreds of thousands of former donors can once again roll up their sleeves, perhaps bolstering U.S. blood collections, which lagged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Vermont woman who was nearly killed in an explosion during a family vacation in the Bahamas is out with a brand-new memoir — which is launching next week with a party in Rutland. The book, titled “Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation,” traces the long journey of Stefanie Schaffer and all she has learned through facing adversity…

Stefanie Schaffer is releasing a memoir titled “Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation.”

The American Red Cross on Tuesday said it declared its first-ever “blood crisis” as it faces the worst national blood shortage in about a decade.

Vermont’s largest annual blood drive, the Gift of Life Marathon in Rutland County, kicked off Tuesday — with a visit from a special guest who knows how vital blood donations are. “Anyone at any time can need it,” Stefanie Schaffer, 25, said of blood used for transfusions. “And it’s constantly needed.” Schaffer lost her legs in an accidental explosion on…

The largest annual blood drive in Vermont kicked off Tuesday.

A woman who survived an explosion that made international headlines is now issuing an impassioned plea to people everywhere to donate blood — a gift she said saved her life. “All that I could do was desperately fight to stay alive,” Stefanie Schaffer said of the moments following an explosion that nearly killed her. Schaffer is the Vermont dancer who…

A woman who survived an explosion in the Bahamas is asking people everywhere to help improve and even save lives like hers.

Vermont native Stefanie Schaffer, 25, spoke Tuesday at Rutland’s Paramount Theatre about her long recovery after losing her legs — and nearly her life — in a boat explosion in the Bahamas in October 2018. Schaffer spoke of how blood donations kept her alive and urged people to give blood to help alleviate what American Red Cross has described a...