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Recent reports have suggested that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection can cause pneumonitis even in the absence of clinical symptoms and COVID-19 associated pulmonary inflammation can persist resulting in long-term fibrosis. This single-center study utilized standardized immunological testing to determine whether lungs from COVID-19 seropositive donors, indicative of past COVID-19 infection, can be safely used for clinical transplantation.
Kurihara et al. (Mon,) studied this question.