PHILADELPHIA — Recent data bolster the value of lung transplants for some COVID-19 patients, indicating they do as well after surgery as those who needed new lungs for other reasons. The complicated, risky procedure remains rare, though, doctors said, and there is still much they’re learning about how well transplants work for COVID-19 patients. “No institution has that long-time survival data because it started earliest 2020 March or April,” said Norihisa Shigemura, a Temple University Hospital physician who performs lung transplants. “It’s still too early to say whether this will bring a lon…
