Loading ...Organ transplant patient dies after receiving Covid-infected lungs
First proven case in the U.S. in which the virus was transmitted via an organ transplant prompts calls for more thorough testing of donors.
Doctors say a woman in Michigan contracted Covid-19 and died last fall two months after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to harbor the virus that causes the disease — despite showing no signs of illness and initially testing negative.
Doctors are shocked, I’m sure!
And our blood supply is…