Total Number of Dialysis Patients Shrunk for the First Time in Nearly 50 Years, They Were the Pandemic’s Perfect Victims
Publisher |
iHeartPodcasts
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Health & Fitness
Publication Date |
Jan 10, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:11:34

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the number of dialysis patients shrunk, not because more people were healthy, but because Covid struck. People with kidney failure and the associated illnesses are more prone to severe infection, but many people also neglected getting their treatments during the pandemic. And despite dialysis centers implementing Covid precautions, some facilities didn't follow their own infection control policies. Duaa Eldeib, reporter at ProPublica, joins us for how dialysis patients were the pandemic's perfect victims and how few people took notice.

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