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Message: [QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 3337425, member: 668"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-coronavirus-diagnosis-ct-scans-lungs-2020-2[/URL] [URL='https://www.sciencealert.com/even-those-who-recover-from-corona-can-be-left-gasping-for-breath-afterwards']Those Who Recover From Coronavirus Can Be Left With Reduced Lung Function, Say Doctors[/URL] [I]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," Owen Tsang Tak-yin, the medical director of the authority's Infectious Disease Centre, told a press conference Thursday, according to the South China Morning Post. "Some patients might have around a drop of 20 to 30% in lung function" after full recovery, he said. Tsang added, however, that patients can do cardiovascular exercises, like swimming, the improve their lung capacity over time. [B]While it's too early to establish long-term effects of the disease, scans of nine patients' lungs also "found patterns similar to frosted glass in all of them.[/B][/I] As noted, for those that have serious/severe lung/difficulty breathing symptoms, where hospitalization requires the need for a respirator, etc., it's too soon to conclude whether there will be[I] "permanent"[/I] damage to the lung organ. [URL unfurl="true"]https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/487436-can-you-get-coronavirus-twice[/URL] [I]Scientists agree reinfection is an unlikely explanation for patients who test positive a second time, according to the Los Angeles Times, and note the possibility that testing errors, and releasing patients from hospitals too prematurely, are more likely the reason for reports of patients who retest positive. “If you get an infection, your immune system is revved up against that virus,” Keiji Fukuda, director of Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health, told the Los Angeles Times. “To get reinfected again when you’re in that situation would be quite unusual unless your immune system was not functioning right.” Fukuda told the paper that it’s more likely patients are being released from hospitals while carrying dormant fragments of the disease that are not infectious, but resemble the virus when tested. “The test may be positive, but the infection is not there,” he said. In a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was asked if people who have contracted the virus might now be immune. “We haven’t formally proved it, but it is strongly likely that that’s the case,” Fauci said. “Because if this acts like any other virus, once you recover, you won’t get reinfected.”[/I] [/QUOTE]

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