Right now, more than 106,000 people nationwide are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. Like everything else in society, transplant programs were impacted by the pandemic.

In 2020, 39,000 organ transplants were performed despite the surgeries coming to a screeching halt that March, leaving many people waiting for a surgery they needed to live.

Now, healthcare workers have adapted and changed processes to be COVID-19 friendly and safe, many now feeling more confident about who can be a donor.

Transplant surgeries bounced back quickly and more were done in 2020 than in 2019.

After dying from COVID-19 complications, 20-year-old University of North Carolina Wilmington student Tyler Gilreath saved others because he was an organ donor. His heart, kidneys, liver and pancreas are all going to someone in desperate need of an organ transplant.

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