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Why COVID-19 pneumonia lasts longer, causes more damage than typical pneumonia: COVID-19 pneumonia spreads like multiple wildfires, leaving destroyed lung tissue in its wake – Science Daily
COVID pneumonia is significantly different from pneumonia caused by other causes, reports a new study. It shows how hijacks the lungs’ own immune cells and uses…
Bacteria or viruses like influenza that cause pneumonia can spread across large regions of the lung over the course of hours. In the modern intensive care unit, these bacteria or viruses are usually controlled either by antibiotics or by the body’s immune system within the first few days of the illness.But in a study published in Nature on January 11, investigators at Northwestern Medicine show COVID-19 pneumonia is different.
Instead of rapidly infecting large regions of the lung, the virus causing…
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