LUNG DAMAGE

Invisible Killers: Unmasking the public health risks of Air Pollution and Climate Change

People who have never smoked in their lives are now showing signs of lung damage typically seen in heavy smokers. The culprit? Persistent exposure to dangerously high levels of particulate matter and other pollutants in the air. The long-term effect of living in such conditions is turning into a chronic health pandemic—one more lethal and widespread than even COVID-19.
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Covid-19 may cause long-term lung damage: Study

This damage was not detected by routine CT scans and clinical tests, and the patients would consequently normally be told their lungs are normal, according the researchers at the universities of Sheffield and Oxford in the UK.
Docs: All Covid lung scarring not fibrosis, 90% fully healed

‘Post-Covid lung fibrosis’ indicates lung scarring after an infection, but doctors now believe it is wrong to call every Covid-triggered lung scarring ‘fibrosis’.
No data to show side effects of Covid in patients: Official

According to the city corporation and public health department, recovered patients haven’t so far complained of any sequelae, including muscle pain, throat pain, tiredness or blood clot issues. However, the ESI Hospital says it has seen two patients with breathlessness after recovery.
‘Most patients who recovered in Wuhan suffer lung damage’

90 % of a sample group of coronavirus-recovered patients from a prominent hospital in China’s Wuhan city where the pandemic broke out have reported lung damage