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Anchor lead: How risky is Covid-19 for transplant recipients? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who’ve gotten organ transplants experienced more severe Covid-19 disease than many others at the beginning of the pandemic, but Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, …

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Anchor lead: People whose immune systems aren’t completely functional may have more Covid-19 worries, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who’ve gotten organ transplants take medicines to keep their immune systems from rejecting the organ, and this unfortunately also dampens their response …

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Anchor lead: Can the presence or absence of a certain protein improve kidney transplants? Elizabeth Tracey reports Kidney transplant success could be improved by testing both donor and recipient for the presence of a certain protein that genes determine whether …

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