The patient, a woman in her 20s, had been healthy, but the coronavirus devastated her lungs.
The patient whose identity has been kept anonymous, was on immunosuppressant medication for a previous condition when she contracted the coronavirus, and that, Dr Bharat says, became the reason that the contagion infection affected her lungs the most.
The woman had been on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for nearly two months before the operation June 5.
The coronavirus patient was so sick, so deeply sedated that she could not speak, could not squeeze a hand or even flutter her eyelids — let alone give permission for the 10-hour surgery she endured last week.
The doctors said she had an underlying health issue, a “chronic medical condition” for which she was taking medicine, which suppressed her immune system.
The woman was in bad shape, Bharat said, with signs that her heart, kidneys and liver were beginning to fail, so she quickly moved up the transplant list.
I think we have diff definitions of "healthy"....
Since when did even the covidiots claim that covid damages heart kidney & liver?
“She had had a minor illness that required her to take a medication that suppressed her immune system somewhat, but it was not clear whether the drug made her especially vulnerable to the virus“....I wonder what kind of medication this was...sad to hear nonetheless...
Minor illness lol... her whole body is failing...
Nothing to do with covid
I would also point out the MASSIVE diffs between the Chicago Sun (who initially reported the story) and the revisionism that the NY Times put on it #FakeNews