DETROIT – A suburban Detroit woman infected with COVID-19 gave birth then underwent a double lung transplant just weeks later to save her life, doctors said Wednesday.
Two months after the transplant, Jackie Dennis, a teacher in New Boston, said she’s doing well. She and the medical team at Henry Ford Health System shared her remarkable story with 4-month-old Mia Rose in her arms. “I feel actually pretty normal,” Dennis, 31, said. “Things are still a little hard, maybe taking too many steps, going up and down the stairs.
But generally speaking I can do almost everything I want to besides picking up Mia just yet." Dennis was 36 weeks pregnant on Nov.