Danoff
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Wow. I just read that even mild cases suffer from lung tissue damage so severe that they will likely need treatment for the rest of their lives. The article said that doctors checked x-rays of recovered people and at first they thought they mixed them up with pics from still infected people. The virus does deep lung tissue damage unlike any other pneumonia where the lung recovers nearly to 100%.
Even though they feel really good now, several divers' lung damage was so extensive that they are no longer allowed to do ANY diving at all, the risk of a diving accident and health issues would be way too great. And those were cases with only mild fever and no hospitalization.
Man, if that's true its MUCH worse than I thought.
Do you have any kind of statistics on how many people are left with lung damage? Also how do we know they will not recover? It has not been long...