Just watched a news report regarding the second article below and it was moving.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. A man in his 50s who fought through and survived COVID-19 then required a double-lung transplant at UF Health Shands Hospital to fully recover.
When he arrived to Florida, he was fully dependent on life support, doctors say. What came next was historic for any hospital in the Southeast.
Doctors performed a double-lung transplant, becoming the first hospital in the Southeastern United States to perform the operation, doctors say.
https://mycbs4.com/news/local/man-undergoes-double-lung-transplant-after-battling-covid-19
and
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A young paralegal in Chicago and a car mechanic from Lake Zurich shared their stories after undergoing double lung transplants after suffering from COVID-19.
Both patients said the doctors here saved their lives. When they contracted COVID19 they both suffered severe lung failure, and now are breathing on their own.
Mayra Ramirez, 28, and 62-year-old Brian Kuhns, 62, now finally look and feel healthy.
These two are the first known patients in the U.S. who survived COVID19 because of double-lung transplants. Both spent weeks in the ICU on ventilators, and life support machines.
Ramirez, who suffered from an autoimmune disease, started feeling symptoms in April, she went into the emergency room on April 26 and says from then on, everything was a blur.
She spent six weeks on a ventilator. Her lungs showed irreversible damage. She had a transplant on June 5, and is now breathing on her own.
"I definitely have a purpose and if that purpose is just simply telling my story to raise awareness for people to stay safe and take this condition."
https://abc7chicago.com/health/it-was-a-miracle--2-covid-19-survivors-who-underwent-double-lung-transplants-in-chicago-share-stories/6342224/
GAINESVILLE, Fla. A man in his 50s who fought through and survived COVID-19 then required a double-lung transplant at UF Health Shands Hospital to fully recover.
When he arrived to Florida, he was fully dependent on life support, doctors say. What came next was historic for any hospital in the Southeast.
Doctors performed a double-lung transplant, becoming the first hospital in the Southeastern United States to perform the operation, doctors say.
https://mycbs4.com/news/local/man-undergoes-double-lung-transplant-after-battling-covid-19
and
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A young paralegal in Chicago and a car mechanic from Lake Zurich shared their stories after undergoing double lung transplants after suffering from COVID-19.
Both patients said the doctors here saved their lives. When they contracted COVID19 they both suffered severe lung failure, and now are breathing on their own.
Mayra Ramirez, 28, and 62-year-old Brian Kuhns, 62, now finally look and feel healthy.
These two are the first known patients in the U.S. who survived COVID19 because of double-lung transplants. Both spent weeks in the ICU on ventilators, and life support machines.
Ramirez, who suffered from an autoimmune disease, started feeling symptoms in April, she went into the emergency room on April 26 and says from then on, everything was a blur.
She spent six weeks on a ventilator. Her lungs showed irreversible damage. She had a transplant on June 5, and is now breathing on her own.
"I definitely have a purpose and if that purpose is just simply telling my story to raise awareness for people to stay safe and take this condition."
https://abc7chicago.com/health/it-was-a-miracle--2-covid-19-survivors-who-underwent-double-lung-transplants-in-chicago-share-stories/6342224/
