The Baltimore region?s blood supply hit an annual low as donors recover from the holidays and get back to work.

“There is no substitution for blood,” said Red Cross Chief Executive Officer Gary Ouellette during an appeal from Central Maryland?s blood services division in Baltimore on Monday. “It?s not manufactured in a lab, it?s given by people.”

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