Transplant patient dies after contracting SARS-CoV-2 from donor lungs: US
The donor's initial PCR test was negative but samples from her lower respiratory tract later confirmed she was infected
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Doctors are reporting what is believed to be the first confirmed case in the US of COVID-19 transmission via an organ transplant.
The University of Michigan team say the patient developed COVID-19 after receiving lungs from a donor who had returned a negative nasopharyngeal PCR test.