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Impact of COVID-19 on 2020 transplant activity and waiting lists in France✰,✰✰

“…At the beginning of the epidemic, sufficient data to ensure that the benefits of transplants would outweigh their risks were not available [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] . Accordingly, with the agreement of several professional societies, the transplantation of kidneys (except for pediatric transplantation), intestines, whole pancreases, islets of Langerhans, and tissue was suspended from March 19 through May 11, 2020 (the period of the first lockdown in France).…”