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A 15-year-old dancer with long-haul COVID-19 now has COPD, ‘a disease of the elderly’ – Business Insider
Delaney DePue used to train 20 hours a week for competitive dance. Now the COVID-19 survivor has a lung disease more common in older adult smokers.
Delaney DePue, a 15-year-old in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, used to train 20 hours a week for competitive dance. Now, even running errands can leave her short of breath, Kaiser Health News’s Carmen Heredia Rodriguez reported.
Her downturn began after contracting COVID-19 last summer, a condition from which she still hasn’t seemed to recover. Doctors have diagnosed her with chronic inflammatory lung disease, a condition researchers say is “considered a disease of the elderly” and is usually caused…
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