Yeah, it’s been a hot minute since I did one of these, but a recent conversation motivated me.
Active wait list candidates today, September 21, 2014: 79,127.
That’s a 9.4% increase since April 29, 2011.
BTW, there’s 108,989 total kidney wait list registrations (active and inactive). 16,054 (14.7%) have had a prior kidney transplant. Meanwhile, there are 101,244 candidates and 14,493 (14.3%) have had a prior kidney transplant.
This means the kidney wait list contains 7745 multiple listings, aka folks listed at multiple centers. Think Steve Jobs.
Prior check-ins:
March 18, 2013: 74, 758.
January 20, 2013: 74,352.
November 9, 2012: 74,558
August 11, 2012: 73,104
June 24, 2012: 73,146
May 11, 2012: 73,141
January 30, 2012: 72,428
December 29, 2011: 72,656
November 28, 2011: 72,625
October 18, 2011: 72,642
August 23, 2011: 72,318
Aug 4, 2011: 72,400
July 20, 2011: 72,345
July 10, 2011: 72,360
July 5, 2011: 72,319
May 23, 2011: 72,298
May 11, 2011: 72,244
April 29, 2011: 72,330
In case you don’t know, these numbers are available at OPTN’s website.
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