056 - How is COVID-19 Affecting People with Kidney Failure and on the Transplant Waiting List?

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

With organ transplants on pause in the US to free up needed hospital resources, Americans with kidney failure are forced to assume the risks of going to crowded dialysis centers three times a week. Kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Dorry Segev talks with Stephanie Desmon about how the organ transplant community can rethink ways to resume transplants, assess which patients might fare better with risky transplants, and if COVID-19 patients can be organ donors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.h. That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast
0:41.3	episodes.
0:42.8	Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Dr. Dori Segev,
0:47.2	a transplant surgeon and researcher at Johns Hopkins.
0:50.6	They talk about the impact that COVID-19 is having on patients who are on the kidney transplant
0:56.0	waiting list and how concerned he is about the massive slowdown in transplants during the pandemic.
1:02.6	Let's listen.
1:04.0	Thank you for joining me.
1:06.0	Thank you.
1:06.6	Good morning.
1:07.2	If you have kidney failure, what are your options?
1:10.8	Your options are either to be on dialysis or be on the transplant waiting list.
1:16.8	So how is COVID affecting this?
1:18.9	Right.
1:19.2	So COVID has impacted pretty much every option for somebody with kidney failure.
1:26.3	You know, if you have kidney failure, you need treatment for that,
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