This was confirmed by an American surgeon, who revealed the danger that the virus represents for the lungs.
In this way, the specialist compared x-rays of the lungs of normal patients, with Covid-19 and smokers and the result is alarming, because, as she shared on her Twitter account, “post-covid lungs look worse than any type of smoker’s lung we’ve ever seen. And they collapse. And they coagulate. And the shortness of breath persists and won’t stop, ”said Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, assistant professor at Texas Technical University. The news, which was published in January, went viral again in the last hours.
â ???? “Everyone is very worried about mortality and it is terrible and it is horrifying, but for all the survivors and the people who tested positive, this is going to be a big problem,” he told CBS Dallas-Fort. Worth.
Surgeon Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, 34, was a newly graduated surgeon when the COVID-19 pandemic began. At first, like thousands of other healthcare professionals, he worked tirelessly.
But last fall, she experienced random and repeated physiological symptoms, such as a racing heartbeat and dimmed vision. She diagnosed herself as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Healthcare workers across the country say they feel underestimated by their employers and disillusioned with the medical profession, according to ongoing research from the University of Washington in Seattle.
On the other hand, the doctor made a terrifying warning, 70 and 80 percent of asymptomatic infected experience similar damage to their lungs. “There are still people who say ‘I’m fine. I have no problem, ‘and when you do a chest X-ray, it looks really bad, ”he said.
The lungs of a healthy patient should look clean and with a lot of black space, which is basically air, while a lung of a smoker has white lines, like a kind of mist, which are indicative of scarring and congestion. However, post Covid-19 patients show lungs that appear to be almost completely white, in other words, severely damaged.
“Even if you don’t feel problems now, the fact that this is on your chest X-ray is an indication that you may have problems later on,” explained Bankhead-Kendall.
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