This is what COVID-19 does to Your Lungs

The George Washington University Hospital in DC has released a 3D video of a 59-year-old male coronavirus patient’s lungs

It has taken a lot of pain, suffering, and death for us to learn whatever we have about COVID-19 until now. Coronavirus is primarily respiratory in nature and that’s why lungs are most at risk. It has infected more than 1.426 million people at the time of writing this with almost 82,000 fatalities. The U.S alone has around 400,000 infections becoming the epicenter of the disease.

George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC has recently released a 3D video (below) of a coronavirus patient’s lungs to show the extent of damage COVID-19 can do to the breathing organs of a person — which in this case is a healthy 59-year-old male with high blood pressure. The person who had no symptoms a few earlier was on a ventilator at the time of reporting, to help him breathe.

“For these patients who essentially present in progressive respiratory failure, the damage to the lungs is rapid and widespread. Unfortunately, once damaged to this degree, the lungs can take a long time to heal. For…