COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Abstract An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly and has already taken on pandemic proportions. After China, Italy is the country with the highest number of cases so far (41,035 confirmed cases according to Dipartimento della Protezione Civile as of March 19, and 3,405 deaths). In Northern Italy, where the current prevalence of confirmed cases has surpassed in some areas 2 per 1,000 people, kidney transplant patients are getting infected and starting to develop coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).