Abstract:Background and Aims
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic leads to poorer health outcomes and more utilizing of healthcare resources. Kidney transplant (KT) can lead to worsening transplant outcomes with COVID-19 and trend of KT in the United States decreases. Given a highly contagious disease, high population density may contribute to not only higher rate of the disease, but also lower rate of KT. We aim to examine the association of the number of COVID-19 cases and change in the number… Show more
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