Double lung transplant was the only way to save a young coronavirus survivor

Even if the coronavirus treatment is ultimately effective at neutralizing the pathogen, the lungs of severe COVID-19 survivors could be severely damaged. A young woman needed a double lung transplant after fighting COVID-19 for two months in the ICU. A team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago performed a double lung transplant on the patient, the first in America for a COVID-19 survivor. We've been dealing with the novel coronavirus for nearly six months, and there are people who still ...