On a regular basis, the transplant industry and media trumpet the horror of the growing organ transplant wait list. What they always neglect to mention is that 1/3 of the list is ‘inactive’ at any time. After an OPTN presentation indicated that the active wait list (especially for kidneys, and the vast majority of the wait list is kidneys* has been flat since 2007, I decided to randomly and periodically check the current wait list numbers and post them here.
73,146 active wait list candidates as of 10:23am, June 24, 2012.
Prior counts:
May 11: 73,141
January 30, 2012: 72,428
December 29: 72,656
November 28: 72,625
October 18: 72,642
August 23: 72,318
Aug 4: 72,400
July 20: 72,345
July 10: 72,360
*OPTN’s website doesn’t provide active-only kidney waiting list numbers, unfortunately.