Iowa State’s fall blood drive will begin this week.

The Iowa State Blood Drive team will begin collecting blood donations at the Memorial Union on Tuesday. 

The drive will run from Tuesday to Friday and aims to collect as many units as possible from students, faculty and staff. 

The drive is especially important after floods in North and South Carolina have caused the cancellation of more than 50 blood drives in the area.

In turn, nearly 1,260 units of blood and platelets are estimated to have not been collected because of the cancelation, according to the Red Cross. 

Every two seconds, somebody in the United States need blood, according to the American Red Cross. More than 41,000 units of blood are used each day in procedures.

The blood drive begins each day at 10 a.m., and donations are taken until close at 5 p.m.