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What are the implications of a COVID positive, asymptomatic person donating blood?

My understanding is here in the US the Red Cross tests blood donations for COVID antibodies, but do not test the donee for COVID. Obviously, given the amount of asymptomatic COVID carriers I am sure that people who are actively positive have donated. What would this mean for recipients of this blood?
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According to the cdc: There have been no reported cases of people getting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from a blood transfusion. Generally, respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are not spread by blood transfusion.

Even so, people who want to donate blood are evaluated for any current or past illness. If they are ill at the time of donation, they cannot donate blood. For example, they must have normal body temperature on the day of donation.