COVID-19 does even more damage to the lungs than smoking, doctor says

[Chris Smith]

• A trauma surgeon who has treated thousands of coronavirus patients since March warns of a terrifying symptom that can affect many COVID-19 survivors.
• Post-COVID-19 lungs “look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen,” Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall tweeted.
• In an interview, she explained that even COVID-19 survivors who had asymptomatic cases are affected, advising people to get vaccines rather than risk the long-term consequences of infection.

Beating the novel coronavirus and surviving COVID-19 isn't the end of the story for those who are infected. The vast majority of people will eliminate the threat, but a significant percentage of them will continue to experience symptoms for weeks or even months after the initial infection. These can be symptoms similar to what happens during the infection, including shortness of breath and fatigue, or unusual signs that might not be immediately linked to COVID-19.

Even if symptoms are absent after the infection is cleared, the lungs might take a longer time to heal. A trauma surgeon from Texas highlighted this particular aspect of the illness on Twitter and TV. "Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers on... & on... & on,” Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall tweeted.

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