The story of Mayra Ramírez, a 28-year-old Latina living in Chicago, has been widely commented on social networks. Although he took all the sanitary precautions, Martínez contracted the coronavirus.
The disease damaged her lungs to the point that she needed a transplant. She became the first coronavirus survivor to receive a double lung transplant in the United States.
Guillermo Arduino talks in this #EncounterDigitalCNN with Martínez and one of his surgeons, Dr. Rafael Garza-Castillón of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.