Lessons from Wuhan | CBC News
"It will get better," he insisted at the time. For Wuhan, he believes it has, Yu said last month in a rare conversation with foreign media. But he admitted his own recovery has been longer and tougher than he expected. It wiped him out for three and a half months, he told CBC while sitting in the back room of a Wuhan mah-jong parlour near his hospital. "I was very weak after I got sick. It was life-threatening," Yu said. "I lost some 15 kilograms [more than 30 pounds]." He also admitted that "as a doctor, I learned a lot." For instance, how the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the lungs is mu...