A 28-year-old woman is the first COVID-19 survivor to receive a double-lung transplant in the US

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Coronavirus had taken a deadly toll on her body: her lungs had been irreversibly damaged and other organs were beginning to fail

The 28-year-old arrived at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital's emergency room on April 26 and within minutes -- giving her barely enough time to call her family -- her harrowing experience began.

, she said. After Ramirez spent more than a month on a ventilator, her family flew from North Carolina to say a final goodbye after she says doctors announced they were unsure if she'd survive."Without the transplant, she would not have made it," Dr. Ankit Bharat, the chief of Thoracic Surgery at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, adding Ramirez had multiple complications linked to the virus.

"I looked at myself and I couldn't recognize my own body," Ramirez said, after waking up in the hospital following her procedure."I couldn't talk, I could barely lift a finger, I couldn't move. I was in a lot of pain, I was very confused."

 

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