This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA former covid-19 patient has received a double-lung transplant, a surgery believed to be the first of its kind in the United States since the pandemic began, medical officials announced Thursday.Northwestern Medicine in Chicago said the recipient, a woman in her 20s who would not have survived without the transplant, is in intensive care recovering from the operation and from two previous months on lung and heart assistance devices.Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of Northwestern’s lung...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA former covid-19 patient has received a double-lung transplant, a surgery believed to be the first of its kind in the United States since the pandemic began, medical officials announced Thursday.Northwestern Medicine in Chicago said the recipient, a woman in her 20s who would not have survived without the transplant, is in intensive care recovering from the operation and from two previous months on lung and heart assistance devices.Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of Northwestern’s lung...WW…