Michigan woman dies after receiving COVID-infected lungs in transplant - WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland

(NEXSTAR) – A Michigan woman contracted COVID-19 and died two months after receiving a double lung transplant from a person who was later found to have had coronavirus, doctors say.

According to the study, she was given a nasal swab test within 48 hours of the transplant and it turned up negative.

The recipient had chronic obstructive lung disease and also tested negative before the transplant surgery last fall.

When she developed sceptic shock, doctors called for another coronavirus test and she turned out to be positive.

Doctors then retested the donor at a University of Michigan lab – this time using fluid taken from deep in the lungs – and the woman tested positive as well.

The study called for the use of not just nasal swabs, but also the deep lung fluid test, called a bronchoalveolar lavage, or BAL, as well as enhanced protective equipment for hospital staff involved in the transplant!