MANILA—A Filipino healthcare worker from Illinois became one of the first-known COVID-19 patients to receive lungs from a COVID-19 donor in the United States.
A year after his ordeal, Aquino shared the story of his survival after receiving a double-lung transplant from a donor, who also recovered from COVID-19 before their death. By February, Aquino's family transferred him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after learning about their lung transplants.
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