Oh gosh - first lung transplant done for a #COVID19 patient. Hope only a fraction of the 20% severe cases ever need this. Though there is currently 50% 28-day mortality if someone enters ICU (based on China data). But what % or total infected will need ICU? Unclear.
2) in earlier post, there was evidence that large # of critically ill needed a ventilator machine and for long duration. There’s barely enough ICU beds and ventilator machines for current patients in US. We are not ready. #COVID19
3) Stanford doctor @RoxanaDaneshjou correctly points out there is no evidence of lung tissue scarring from #COVID19. Thus patients may not need lung transplant. patient who got one (above) likely had other morbidities. We don’t have data on scarring yet.
