There are still many people who doubt the reality of the coronavirus. That is why on social media there are several posts that describe the pandemic as an invention, a conspiracy, a business, a fakenews or a control measure.
Thus, they remind us of the plots of the famous series of the nineties “Secret Files X”, where everything was questioned and double intentions were sought.
But doctors and scientists, not to mention patients, do not doubt the disease that has frightened everyone for a year, and that according to the count this Sunday, January 17 of the Johns Hopkins University of the United States records 94,759,287 cases and 2,026,617 deaths on the planet.
To exemplify how serious really covid-19 is, the American doctor Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, Published x-rays of the lungs of people who passed the coronavirus, and who appear much more damaged than smokers.
She added that severe damage is observed in 100% of people who had symptoms of coronavirus, and between 70 and 80% of asymptomatic people.
“I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the lungs after covid-19 look worse than any kind of terrible smoker’s lung we’ve seen. And they collapse. And they clot. And the difficulty in breathing persists.”, Said the specialist, who has taken thousands of patient plaques since the start of the health emergency and gave an interview to CBS, Chain that used his expressions to show from left to right healthy lungs, those of a smoker and those of someone who had coronavirus.
This is how the lungs look after suffering from coronavirus
A Texas trauma surgeon says “post-COVID lungs look worse than any kind of terrible smoking lung we’ve ever seen” https://t.co/NHtt4d7eT9
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