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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The woman, who was not named, had the lungs implanted at University Hospital in Ann Arbor
Dr. Daniel Richard Kaul said nose and throat samples routinely collected from organ donors and recipients tested negative for COVID-19
When the patient started presenting with septic shock, doctors decided to send samples from her lungs for coronavirus testing - which came back positive
A surgeon became sick and tested positive for COVID-19 four days after handing the donor s lungs but recovered
Kaul suggested in a study that health care workers perform COVID tests on samples taken from deep within donor lungs