CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD
The aim of our analysis was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the donor program and kidney transplantation in Slovakia and to identify the risk factors for a severe course of COVID-19 disease, as well as the risk factors for COVID-19 fatalities, with focus on the parameters preceding the infection. We compared morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 before and after the proliferation of the alpha variant of the virus and the same among transplant and hemodialysis patients in Slovakia.