Huang, who was one of the physicians who saved Garza, said it was “almost miraculous” that everything from finding a hospital room during the pandemic to getting a new pair of lungs so quickly played out in Garza’s favor.

The hospital reportedly has several patients on life support awaiting lung transplants.

According to Huang, there’s no guarantee Garza wouldn’t have been ill if he’d been vaccinated, but “it’s likely that we would have never gotten to this point.”.