Posted on 05/29/2020 6:38:36 AM PDT by foreverfree
Thousands of Netherlands residents who recovered from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, may be left with permanent damage to their lungs, resulting in decreased capacity and more difficulty absorbing oxygen, Leon van den Toorn, pulmonologist chairman of the Dutch association of physicians for pulmonary disease and tuberculosis NVALT, said to newspaper AD.
Many people underestimate the consequences of the coronavirus Van den Toorn said to the newspaper. The virus and the body's response to it can cause permanent damage to the lungs, he said. "In severe cases, a kind of scar formation occurs, we call this lung fibrosis. The lungs shrink and the lung tissue becomes stiffer, making it harder to get enough oxygen."
This is very real, but it isn’t actually “news” to the medical community.
They’ve known it since... 2003. That’s not a typo.
It was the same with SARS, a coronavirus.
Those who are the most advanced cases, go on a ventilator and have “ARDS” (acute respiratory distress syndrome). Many come off the ventilator and are released from the hospital, but their lungs don’t fully recover. They get some of it back over time, but not all. So it limits how much they can do, energy levels, quality of life.
But it’s not everyone who gets coronavirus, it’s only the most advanced cases.
In the human DNA forever? Again your profound lack of understanding of science is only offset but the grandiosity of your stupid statements. This current statement really takes the cake.
Bold statement for something so allegedly new. This is a guess not a study. Radiographic evidence demonstrates significant or complete clearing in virtually every case as is typical with any viruses
Let’s see if this proves true in a year. By then everyone who’ll have forgotten about this and this will be relegated to another panic porn prognostication.
There is a theory that you are a robot with a program to only answer if the word flu bro appears in a post but only if it doesn’t have a space. Let’s see if this is true. No response to this post will prove it if I post later wirh the specified spelling of the word. Like Groucho Marx used to say. Down comes the duck.
Prove you are real
FluBros
(SARS ARDS recovery, advanced cases only)
” Patients in the younger group had good outcomes,
with substantial recovery of HRQoL by 6 months. “
“Patients in the older group had poorer outcomes, with slow,
inconsistent recovery and poor health status even at 1-year
follow-up. Poor medium- to long-term HRQoL following ARDS
has been reported by a number of investigators.2”
SARS caused permanent lung damage in patients. This virus is basically a modified SARS. It’s not just the flu, bro.
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