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Michigan woman dies from COVID-19 after lung transplant: study - Fox News
Feb 22, 2021 48 secs

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.

All the screening that we normally do and are able to do, we did," Kaul added. The donor was a woman from the Upper Midwest who died after suffering from a severe brain injury in a car accident.

Nose and throat samples collected from the donor and the recipient had tested negative for COVID-19.

However, three days after the surgery, the woman developed a high fever, low blood pressure, heavy breathing and a lung infection, according to researchers.

Four days after the operation, a surgeon who had handled the donor’s lungs also tested positive for the bug, but later recovered.

Kaul concluded that the Michigan case proves there needs to be more extensive sampling of organs before transplant surgery, especially in regions where there are more cases of COVID-19

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