In 2022, more Americans than ever needed organ donations – over 62,000 people were added to waitlists nationwide. More than 5,000 died waiting.
The title of the chart is "Waiting for a second chance at life" and the subtitle is "In 2022, more Americans than ever needed organ donations – over 62,000 people were added to waitlists nationwide. More than 5,000 died waiting." The chart is a line graph with the year as the X axis and number of people as the Y axis. There are three lines: "Waitlist Additions" increases from 50,000 to 60,000, "Transplants" increases from 25,000 to 30,000, and "Deaths" stays fairly steady at 8,000. A line through 2020 marks the year the COVID-19 pandemic came to the U.S.