COVID-19 Test Reporting for Deceased Donors: Emergent Policies, Logistical Challenges and Future Directions

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to the transplant community, including organ procurement organizations (OPOs), transplant centers, regulatory agencies, and recipient candidates The profound decline in transplant activity at the start of the pandemic was driven by the fear of disease transmission, limited access to testing for SARS-CoV-2, constraints on health care facilities resources, and the lack of a standardized, consistent method to document and communicate deceased donor testing results 1