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COVID-19 has been sweeping the globe, hitting the United States particularly hard with a state of emergency declared on 3/13/2020 Transplant hospitals have taken various precautions to protect patients from potential exposure OPTN donor, candidate, and transplant data was analyzed from 1/5/2020-9/5/2020 The number of new waiting list registrations decreased, with the Northeast seeing over a 50% decrease from the week of 3/8 versus the week of 4/5 The national transplant system saw near cessation of living donor transplantation (-90%) from the week of 3/8 to the week of 4/5 Similarly, deceased donor kidney transplant volume dropped from 367 to 202 (-45%), and other organs saw similar decreases: lung (-70%), heart (-43%), and liver (-37%) Deceased donors recovered dropped from 260 to 163 (-45%) from 3/8 compared to 4/5, including a 67% decrease for lungs recovered The magnitude of this decrease varied by geographic area, with the largest percent change (-67%) in the Northeast Despite the pandemic, discard rates across organ has remained stable Although the COVID- 19 pandemic continues to evolve, OPTN data shows recent evidence of stabilization, an indication that an early recovery of the number of living and deceased donors and transplants has ensued
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