Season 1 · Episode 56
056 - How is COVID-19 Affecting People with Kidney Failure and on the Transplant Waiting List?
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 28, 202015m 25s
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Show Notes
With organ transplants on pause in the US to free up needed hospital resources, Americans with kidney failure are forced to assume the risks of going to crowded dialysis centers three times a week. Kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Dorry Segev talks with Stephanie Desmon about how the organ transplant community can rethink ways to resume transplants, assess which patients might fare better with risky transplants, and if COVID-19 patients can be organ donors.
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