Two survivors. Four new lungs. One pioneering #NorthwesternMedicine team. Meet the first known patients in the United States to receive double-lung transplants due to #COVID19, performed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. #DoubleLungTransplant
"I’m pretty sure that if I had been at another center, they would have just ended care and let me die."
Mayra Ramirez, 28, was the first of a small but growing number of people whose only hope of surviving the coronavirus was to replace their lungs. https://t.co/JhAhV0WK2H
A young woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the first known lung transplant in the United States for Covid-19 https://t.co/CHRPHomDdU