The ongoing coronavirus outbreak wasn’t going to stop Garnett Hecker from making a miracle of a milestone: Donating his 100th pint of blood.

“I really don’t worry about it,” Hecker, 83, said on donating blood during the pandemic.

He made his first donation more than 30 years ago.

“My mom had something wrong with her and they had to give her blood transfusions,” Hecker said. “So I thought, ‘Well there are probably a lot of people like that who need blood.’”

Hecker hasn’t stopped donating since, saying he usually gives blood four times a year.

“It doesn’t bother me, so I just figured, well, why not do it?,” he said. “It’s really not a big problem.”

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