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A 28-year-old coronavirus survivor said she woke up from a double lung transplant and didn’t recognise her own body – Business Insider Australia

The 28-year-old Chicago woman who became the first person in the United States to receive a lung transplant due to the coronavirus spoke out in a press conference on Thursday about the illness that nearly killed her.

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  • In June, a 28-year-old Chicago woman became the first person in the country to undergo a double lung transplant due to the coronavirus.
  • She told reporters in a press conference on Thursday that she woke up from the surgery in mid-June, and “couldn’t recognise my body.”
  • Mayra Ramirez had an autoimmune condition that may have made her more susceptible to the coronavirus when she caught the disease in April.
  • The disease severely damaged her lungs, leavi…

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