People who fully recover from the coronavirus can be left with '20 to 30%' less lung function

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

and gasping for breath when they walk quickly, Hong Kong doctors find

People who recover from the novel coronavirus can still be left with substantially weakened lung capacity, with some left gasping for air when walking quickly, doctors in Hong Kong have found.

The Hong Kong Hospital Authority made the findings after studying the first wave of patients that were discharged from the hospital and had fully recovered from COVID-19.

Out of 12 people in the group, two to three saw changes in their lung capacity.

"They gasp if they walk a bit more quickly," Dr Owen Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the authority's Infectious Disease Centre, told a press conference Thursday, according to the South China Morning Post.

https://news.yahoo.com/people-fully-recover-coronavirus-left-103917303.html

Time to quit diddle fucking around Trump.

[mucifer]

1. They can get pneumonia which can cause permanent scarring.

[DrToast]

2. Very underreported aspect of all this

What we’ve been calling “recovered” just means they didn’t die. It’s not certain they’ve fully healed.

[greenjar_01]

3. n equals 12, time equals 30 days

Really compelling stuff.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Yes it does,

many of our acquaintances and Relatives who had the childhood diseases of the late forties,passed away well before their time. Each had a reduced Lung function as the result of those childhood diseases.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I'm glad I quit smoking, because I'll probably get it eventually.

I think most of us will get it, although it will vary how sick it will make each of us.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Sixteen Years April 4

without a Cig. Cold turkey after 42 years doing up to 3 packs a day. Have not had a cold or flu since. My spouse,that is another story. Still a half pack a day. Czech Stubbornness.

[abqtommy]

7. For a long time I've seen people out and about with their oxygen tanks and portable oxygen

concentrators*. The human will to survive is strong and there's already a way to survive reduced lung
function. We have to get rid of tRUMP though, there's no surviving him and his cultists...

*note: I've seen some information about being prescribed supplemental oxygen by a doctor and all
that's involved and none of it is insurmountable.