Mean life span post lung transplant is 6 years. She isn't seeing 40.

From the article:

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She was healthy before she contracted the coronavirus, Dr. Bharat said. She had had a minor illness that required her to take a medication that suppressed her immune system somewhat, but it was not clear whether the drug made her especially vulnerable to the virus.

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Would an immune suppressant drug help prevent a cytokine storm? Or make it more dangerous that you'd have a sever infection?

Hard to speculate without more solid details, but my guess is that the suppressant knocked down the innate immune system, your first line of defense that is nonspecific for pathogens and let the virus run rampant with high viral titers/load, eventually leading to increased disease severity. The innate immune system tries to fight the virus off in the first week when you are showing symptoms/transmit the virus. The adaptive immune system (pathogen specific) then kicks in the second week and a suppressant (again, depending on what the exact medication was) would help in that phase to knock down the cytokine storm.

My guess is this was a bad scenario of the virus replicating non-stop in the lung tissue due to suppressant that it destroyed the tissue. Hard to say for sure.

Looks like a bake potato with cheese and bacon

She was on an immunosuppressant.

The people I've seen do poorly are one or more of the following:
-Old/frail
-Obese
-Diabetic
-Immunosuppressed, whether through chemotherapy or meds for autoimmune condition.

For me personally the obese diabetics are the ones with the worst outcomes.


Also "just the flu"...flu could absolutely do this too.

And she could live past age 40. She will just need another lung transplant in the future which she would have a good chance for if she remains a good candidate.

Really bad scenario. Suppressing your immune system and then letting COVID run rampant.

I will be glad when random people on twitter or 1000 random people signing an open letter stops being considered uniform support for a position. 1000 people out of millions of health care workers in this country sign an open letter and people get all in a tizzy pretending the entire medical community or the CDC/NIH was holding up protest signs themselves. Each side holds up the unreasonable and illogical other side of the argument to try to convince you the other side is not reasonable. In actuality, the overwhelming majority of both sides are reasonable. Stop falling for it.

Oh, btw, charge.org petitions don't mean crap either.