New Study Shows COVID19 Patients Do Not Suffer Permanent Lung Damage

A new scientific study published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery has demonstrated that survivors of COVID19 are likely to have no lasting lung damage.

Media sources and others have consistently pushed a narrative that 'long COVID' and other such terms are a major threat to those suffering with COVID19. This study shows that lung cells in recovered patients were not adversely affected long term.

"Since the start of the pandemic, a big question has been whether COVID-19 will have long-term or permanent damage on our lungs," said Zaid Abdelsattar, MD, MS, senior author of the study and thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon at Loyola Medicine. "This research provided us with the rare opportunity to study the asymptomatic survivors of COVID-19 and make observations to help us answer this question."

Of all the COVID-19 survivors studied, none showed any detectable lasting lung damage that was directly attributable to COVID-19.

While autopsy reports of deceased COVID-19 patients and pathologic studies from patients with end-stage lung disease from COVID-19 report severe fibrosis, diffuse alveolar damage, perivascular T-cell infiltration, severe endothelial injury, intracellular viral particles and cell membrane disruption in lung tissue, this study indicates that the large majority of COVID-19 survivors can recover without significant lasting lung damage.

"Further research is still needed on why some patients recover completely, and others don’t. Our study shows that if you contract COVID-19 and then completely recover clinically and on imaging, your lung tissues are also likely to have completely healed as well without permanent damage" said Dr. Abdelsattar.

Source: Loyola university

Clearly this is good news for everyone who has been sick with COVID19!

Wishing you well,
Ura Soul

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