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“Organ donation and transplantation surgery came to a screeching halt in March 2020 when doctors feared bringing severely-ill immunocompromised patients into a hospital that was packed over capacity with a highly transmissible airborne infectious disease.
If a patient wasn’t in an intensive care unit (ICU) bed at the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, they likely were not receiving a transplant at that time.”
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