The bizarre pancreas loophole that’s undermining America’s organ donation system

You probably haven’t heard of organ procurement organizations, but if you or anyone you know has ever received an organ transplant, they’re the ones who procured it. | Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Below is a graph showing a trend that exploded during the 2020s:

What is this depicting? Compute use for AI? Crispr gene edits per year?

No, this is another, much less-known example of massive growth these past several years. This is a chart of the number of pancreases (or, to use the correct plural...