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Some adults with severe respiratory illness, including women, those with public insurance, and people with fewer financial resources, may be less likely to receive an advanced form of life support known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
About half of adults treated at hospitals for COVID-19 have experienced lingering symptoms, financial difficulties, or physical limitations months after being discharged, according to a National Institutes of Health-supported study published in JAMA Network Open.
Half COVID hospitalized adults in U.S. have lingering symptoms months after being discharged: study-
Inhaled pollutants can collect in the lymph nodes associated with the lung, accumulating over decades and weakening the immune cells' ability to fight off lung infections.
The diminished power of the immune system in older adults is usually blamed on the aging process. A new study shows that decades of inhaled particulates due to air pollution also take a toll.