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2020

Here's what it's like to receive a life-saving heart transplant in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic

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Mark McDevitt

  • Elaine McDevitt needed a heart transplant — and received one — amid the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic.
  • She entered the hospital on January 27 when there were only five COVID-19 cases in the US, and she left on April 6, when the US was experiencing the worst outbreak in the world. 
  • Over her two-month stay — when the drugs she took to prevent a heart rejection put her at-risk for a COVID-19 infection — McDevitt saw how the virus changed the hospital, from a moratorium on visitors and hugs to widespread use of protective gear. 
  • Visit Business Insider 's homepage for more stories.

Elaine McDevitt was going to die. 

"I thought heart failure was something old people had when they were dying," the 59-year-old of Cumru Township, Pennsylvania, told Business Insider. "I didn't know you could walk around with heart failure."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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