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For this month’s Infectious Disease News cover story, we touched base with experts in transplant medicine and transplant infectious diseases to discuss recent challenges brought on by the pandemic and the country’s organ shortage crisis.

The polio strain linked to 2 polio cases in New York and Israel has been found in sewage water in New York City, London, and Jerusalem.

The polio strain linked to 2 polio cases in New York and Israel has been found in sewage water in New York City, London, and Jerusalem.

Hospitals across the United States are increasingly denying organ transplants to patients who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Hospitals are denying transplants for patients who aren’t vaccinated against Covid, with backing from ethicists.

A team of four doctors, experts in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, are sounding a warning about Americans who remain most vulnerable to COVID-19 — those with existing health conditions or the immunosuppressed.

Hopkins doctors propose treatment for the immunosuppressed in a way that will better protect the rest of us from coronavirus variants.

When it comes to receiving organ transplants, patients are not usually judged on prior behavior, but some doctors are questioning whether unvaccinated COVID patients should qualify for new lungs.

When it comes to receiving organ transplants, patients are not usually judged on prior behavior, but some doctors are questioning whether unvaccinated COVID patients should qualify for new lungs.

When it comes to receiving organ transplants, patients are not usually judged on prior behavior, but some doctors are questioning whether unvaccinated COVID patients should qualify for new lungs.