Transplant surgery

COVID-related transplants are surging as hospitals grapple with a growing subset of patients whose organs are “basically destroyed by the virus,” said Dr. Jonathan Orens at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a trachea. These kinds of transplants are one of the last big transplant challenges.

By Christine Sexton / News Service of FloridaIt’s been less than two weeks since Florida jettisoned some long-standing regulations for hospitals, but…