There are nearly 90,000 people waiting for a kidney transplant in the US as of July 2023. The final week of June broke the all-time record for new weekly additions to the list, with 1,069 getting in line. That brings the total number of kidney transplant waitlist additions for 2023 to 24,155, which also looks to be a record for the first 6 months of a year. (The
So, what's seems to be driving this uptick?