Among potential donors, SARS-CoV-2 positivity poses an ongoing challenge due to uncertainty, with widespread discard of organs from deceased donors with COVID-19.11 An early study reported donor-derived COVID-19 infection in 3 lung transplant recipients, 1 of whom died from COVID-19-related complications.12 The donors were nucleic antigen test (NAT) negative for SARS-CoV-2 from the upper respiratory tract, but NAT positive from the lower respiratory tract. This evidence concerns the gene BRD2 and COVID-19.