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Transplant gives Berks County man a second chance at life after COVID destroyed his lungs

Fred Rahmanian was with his children — triplets — when they celebrated their 18th birthday in February. Soon he will be there to watch them graduate from high school and a few months later help them as they head off to college.

There were moments at the end of last year when being there for these milestones, and more to come, appeared very unlikely for the 54-year-old Bern Township resident.

Fred was the recipient of the first lung transplant performed on a COVID-19 patient in Pennsylvania. The double-lung transplant was performed at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day. 

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