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Fil-Am undergoes first known successful COVID-to-COVID double lung transplant

Published May 17, 2021, 9:14 AM “I’m not done living yet and have a lot of good to share with the world.” This was what a 65-year-old Filipino-American said after becoming the first known successful “COVID-to-COVID” double lung transplant recipient in the United States. He is now on his way to recovery. PHOTO FROM NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE’S FACEBOOK PAGE/ MANILA BULLETIN Renato Aquino, who immigrated to Illinois from the Philippines to pursue a career in medicine 30 years ago, worked as a phlebotomist on the front lines during the pandemic. “I spent the last year in and out of hospitals, struggling to breathe – not knowing if I’d live or die… I was a healthy guy with no underlying health conditions, but my symptoms started with a fever and quickly got worse,” Aquino said in a statement from Northwestern Medicine.

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