M. Marshall
Nature, 2020
Because most infected people do not end up in hospital, Gholamrezanezhad says the overall rate of such intermediate-term lung damage is likely to be much lower - his best guess is that it is less than 10% Doctors are now concerned that the pandemic will lead to a significant surge of people battling lasting illnesses and disabilities Because the disease is so new, no one knows yet what the long-term impacts will be "For a long time, it's been suggested that people who have been infected with measles are immunosuppressed in an extended period and are vulnerable to other infections," says Daniel Chertow, who studies emerging pathogens at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland [ ]the thing is that, long term, when they recover, how long does it take the immune system to settle back to normality?" Heart of the matter An over-reactive immune system can lead to inflammation, and one particularly susceptible organ is the heart
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