31 July 2020, 06:12 PM
jon-nycCOVID patient gets double lung transplate (NYTs)
Most kidney transplant are live donors.
Some liver transplants are live donors - they do partial liver transplant.
I think deaths on the lung waiting list are on the order of 10-11 per 100 wait list years. Other people get removed from the list because they're too sick to move forward with transplant. In a world with many more organs many of those would have been transplanted and not gotten sick.
So there is a zero sum element to it.
31 July 2020, 07:06 PM
Piano*Dadquote:
So there is a zero sum element to it.
Exactly my point. The COVID epidemic will kill some non-COVID patients who were waiting for lungs simply because the "miracle cure" for some COVID patients winds up using the lungs that could have saved a non-COVID patient.