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Organ Donations Rebound In New York To Pre-COVID Levels
October 9, 2020
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the health of many people beyond those who’ve been infected. That’s especially true for organ donations and transplants, which nearly came to a complete halt in the New York area during the height of the pandemic. As CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reports, there’s been bad news and surprising good news for organ donation and transplantation this year. The sad news is that three times the previous average number of people have died waiting for a transplant this year. The good news is that organ and tissue donations have rebounded beyond normal levels.
When the pandemic hit the New York area, referrals of potential donors to New York’s organ procurement organization, LiveOn New York, skyrocketed from 80 calls a day to 600 a day. But as the president and CEO of LiveOn New York told Gomez, they were virtually all unusable. “Every case that was referred to us was COVID positive or presumed COVID positive, to the point that we had to ask our hospitals to stop calling us and only call us if they felt the patient did not have COVID,” Helen Irving said. Transplanting a COVID-infected organ or tissue into an immunosuppressed recipient would be almost certainly fatal. So potential donors, including living donors for kidneys and livers, went to nothing overnight. But now that hospitals are not overrun with COVID patients, both living and deceased donations have rebounded to pre-COVID levels. “Last month, we had 31 families, and we were able to transplant 78 organs,” Irving said. Sadly, because COVID causes multiple organ damage, there will soon be many more people needing transplants. Ironically, even though most of the Northeast is still catching up, nationally there have been more transplants in 2020 than at this time last year, and 2019 was a record year.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/10/09/organ-donations-rebound-in-new-york-to-pre-covid-levels/
HHS Announces New Organ Transplant Guidance
June 25, 2020
Update Improves Transplant Safety and Access to Lifesaving Organs
Previously, organs available for transplant may have been declined because of concerns about the potential for HIV, hepatitis B virus, or hepatitis C virus infection, particularly when donors had risk factors for infection such as injecting drugs. Advances in highly accurate testing have made it easier for healthcare providers to quickly determine whether a potential organ donor has an infection. As a result, the risk for getting these infections because of a transplant is very low. In the extremely rare case that a patient develops one of these infections as the result of an organ transplant, by following this new guidance, healthcare providers will be able to detect an infection early and immediately begin treatment. A cure for hepatitis C is available, and safe and effective treatments for HIV and hepatitis B allow patients with these infections to remain well despite the infection. This guideline also recommends that organ transplant recipients receive hepatitis B vaccination. “This is an important step forward for individuals in need of solid organ transplants,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, M.D. “Today’s guideline is grounded in scientific evidence and advancements in testing technologies. These recommendations further expand the availability of life changing organs for those in need.”
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0626-hhs-organ-transplant-guidance.html
This has an overwhelming stench..of selling organs under the radar.. especially given the HHS guidance.
The tenets of QAnon, “the elephant in the room.”
Not a meme maker ..but smelling one should be created with this statement in mind..
Forgot to link to the post..in this bread..this is quote from Steve Bannon..
>>11206859 Steve Bannon Calls Qanon "the elephant in the room"