In early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic really hit the United States and subsequently the Texas Panhandle, Scott Milton remembered a conversation he had with his wife about the potential impact COVID-19 could have at the time.
“I remember telling my wife back in late January and early February (2020), when I was reading about the pandemic . I said, ‘I think this is going to be bad. I think it’s going to become a gamechanger. I don’t know exactly what that means,’” Milton said.
In January 2021, more than 10 months after the first COVID-19 cases came to the Texas Panhandle, Milton, who serves as the city of Amarillo’s public health authority and an associate professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo, has been on the frontlines in the area, being one of the key voices during the pandemic.
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COVID-19 Survivors Show Severe Lungs In X-rays, far Worse Than Any Type Of Smokers
A trauma surgeon has said that the lungs recovered from COVID-19 look ‘far worse’ than that of smokers as the global deaths due to disease surpass 2 million.
A trauma surgeon has said that the lungs recovered from COVID-19 look ‘far worse’ than that of smokers. While according to Johns Hopkins University tally, at least two million people across the globe have died of the disease, Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has said that ‘post-COVID-19’ lungs are more severely damaged than any lungs the medical professionals have ever seen.
Even after a whole year of fighting this deadly virus, there’s a devastating amount of things we still have yet to find out about COVID-19 and its long-term effects on a person’s health. However, recently, a doctor from Texas, who’s treated thousands of COVID patients since March, shared some valuable insights on the disease and its consequences after comparing three lung X-rays: one of a healthy patient, one of a smoker, and one of a COVID-19 patient.
A trauma surgeon from Texas revealed some valuable insights about COVID-19 and its long-term effects after comparing 3 lung X-rays
Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, went on Twitter to share that post-COVID lungs look way worse than any type of terrible smoker’s lungs she’s ever seen.
Updated on January 14, 2021 at 2:04 pm
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center s Dr. Steven Berk, an infectious disease doctor, suspects that there may be other cases.
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