A surgeon in Texas revealed she’s seeing a pattern of lung scarring in some patients who have had COVID-19 that’s worse than what she sees in smokers’ lungs.
Texas trauma surgeon Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall says chest X-rays of ex-COVID patients look worse than X-rays of smokers' lungs. "Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen," she said on Twitter.
A surgeon in Texas revealed she’s seeing a pattern of lung scarring in some patients who have had COVID-19 that’s worse than what she sees in smokers’ lungs.