BOSTON — In this video from the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Joseph A. Vassalotti, MD talks about the first live conference of the NKF in 2 years, amid thoughts on patients who died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vassalotti, the chief medical officer for the NKF, noted the number of patients who died amid the pandemic and its impact on the patient population. “For the first time in the history of the End-Stage Kidney Disease Program, the number of prevalent patients in 2020 was lower than the previous year,” Vassalotti said. “During the