U.S. tops 150,000 coronavirus deaths
U.S. tops 150,000 coronavirus deaths
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A Chicago female who last month became the country’s first COVID-19 client to undergo a double lung transplant said Thursday that she woke up days later on, uninformed about the surgical treatment and not able to “acknowledge my body.”
Mayra Ramirez said that prior to she fell ill she was an independent, active individual who moved from North Carolina to Chicago in 2014 to work as a paralegal.
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Ramirez, 28, spoke to the media on Thursday alongside Brian Kuhns, 62, of Lake Zurich, Illinois, who followed her as the second U.S. coronavirus client to go through a double transplant.
” I looked at myself and could not acknowledge my body,” she stated.
Dr. Ankit Bharat,