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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Summary by CBS News
Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.

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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

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Biased test kept thousands of Black people from kidney transplant

Black Americans are over three times more likely than white people to experience kidney failure. Of the roughly 89,000 people currently on the waiting list for a new kidney, about 30% are Black.

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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Race isn't a biological factor like age, sex or weight - it's a social construct. So how did it make its way into calculations of kidney function?

·Fresno, United States
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