Officials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested the case may be the first proven incident in the U.S. in which the coronavirus was transmitted via an organ transplant.
A lung transplant procedure last fall in Michigan resulted in the death of the patient and illness of a surgeon involved from COVID-19, after both the donor and recipient initially tested negative.
A woman received two new lungs in a double transplant last year, but it turns out the lungs were unknowingly infected with COVID-19, reports Kaiser Health News . The unidentified.
A Michigan woman contracted COVID-19 and died last fall after she got a double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to have the virus, according to a study.
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