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B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜COVID to COVIDB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™ lung transplant patient grateful

Renato Aquino became sick from COVID-19 in May 2020

The recipient of the first known COVID-to-COVID double lung transplant says he feels B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜wonderfulB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™ and is grateful to be alive after getting lungs from a donor who had recovered from COVID.

Renato Aquino became sick from COVID-19 in May 2020, and wasnB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™t expected to make it. But he beat the odds and is now the recipient of one of the first known transplants of its kind in the United States.

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