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Good news, it looks like lungs affected by COVID-19 are able to heal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/healt...overy.html

For patients who were bedridden or intubated in intensive care units for weeks, the ability to breathe on their own was impaired. Their muscles, including the diaphragm — the main breathing muscle that pushes the abdominal organs down so that the lungs can expand — had weakened.
“They spent months in bed and lost their muscle and respiratory capacity,” Ms. Al Chikhanie explained.
“It seems that most of these more severe patients recover from severe lung injury,” said Dr. Frederic Hérengt, who oversaw the study at Dieulefit Santé.
Longer range studies still have to be conducted to assess the potential for permanent effects.

Agreed on the need for longer studies, but still, this is encouraging.

BC

[BostonCard]

Good news, it looks like lungs affected by COVID-19 are able to heal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/healt...overy.html

For patients who were bedridden or intubated in intensive care units for weeks, the ability to breathe on their own was impaired. Their muscles, including the diaphragm — the main breathing muscle that pushes the abdominal organs down so that the lungs can expand — had weakened.
“They spent months in bed and lost their muscle and respiratory capacity,” Ms. Al Chikhanie explained.
“It seems that most of these more severe patients recover from severe lung injury,” said Dr. Frederic Hérengt, who oversaw the study at Dieulefit Santé.
Longer range studies still have to be conducted to assess the potential for permanent effects.

Agreed on the need for longer studies, but still, this is encouraging.

BC