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Coronavirus: Heart and lungs could be damaged by COVID-19, but it’s not all doom and gloom – The New Daily
Many COVID-19 patients who have suffered long-term lung or heart damage tend to improve over time, suggesting the lungs have “a mechanism for repairing themselves.”
From early on in the pandemic, COVID-19 patients were leaving hospital with lung and heart damage that was was found to linger for weeks, prompting doctors to talk about possible long-term consequences.
Months of ongoing lung and heart complications have made plain that some patients will be sick for a long time. But how long?
And is there a pattern emerging of some patients recovering faster than others?
Researchers are evaluating results of a six-month follow-up of COVID-19 patients who suf…
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