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Organ transplants make a turnaround from COVID-19 decline

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RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updatesEach year, about 40,000 people receive transplanted organs in the United States.

In 2019, that included 3,551 heart transplants. But by early April, transplants of all types had fallen by half, a study in The Lancet found.Many things contributed to that drastic decline, and problems varied by region.

But in the earliest days, doctors' main worries were basic."There was a concern from the beginning that these patients might be at increased risk for both becoming infected with coronavirus and then potentially having worse outcomes," said Dr.

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