Coronavirus | ‘Renal patients at high risk from COVID-19’

When a family of three from Bengaluru, including a 53-year-old renal transplant individual, contracted COVID-19 in August, the family only prayed that the disease should not create more complications in the kidney recipient. While two members from the family developed classical COVID-19 symptoms, including high fever, cough, and loss of taste/smell, the person who had undergone the transplant had very mild symptoms. Doctors said this was because of his poor immune response due to immunosuppressants.