A Kidney International “Journal of the COVID-19 Year” in Kidney Transplantation

The global COVID-19 pandemic ’s impact on kidney transplant recipients and transplantation programs in the calamitous months of February to June 2020, the Northern Hemisphere Spring to Summer, is represented in articles published in the December issue of Kidney International. Writing about another pandemic in the year of 1665 over 300 years ago the author Daniel Defoe describes the same period of time in London and gives a remarkably familiar description of how a pandemic affects populations, including the unproven treatments, epidemiology of infection and human response to restrictions on freedom of city lockdowns that occurred during that time (1).

Source: Kidney International - October 19, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: P. Toby Coates Tags: commentary Source Type: research