A Kidney International "journal of the COVID-19 year" in kidney transplantation.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.kint.2020.10.006 and PMC identifier 7571439.
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Abstract
The global coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic's impact on kidney transplant recipients and transplantation programs in the calamitous months of February to June 2020, spring to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, is represented in articles published in the December issue of Kidney International. Writing about another pandemic in the year of 1665 over 300 years ago, the author Daniel Defoe<sup>1</sup> describes the same period of time in London and gives a remarkably familiar description of how a pandemic affects populations, including the unproven treatments, epidemiology of infection, and human response to restrictions on freedom of city lockdowns that occurred during that time. The risks, outcomes, epidemiology, and potential treatments for the kidney transplant population worldwide during the past 12 months have been thankfully studied in detail by multiple investigators and form the subject of papers in KI this month.
Medical subject headings
- COVID-19
- Kidney Transplantation
- Pandemics