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COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage – 3 ways long COVID patients' respiration can suffer

  • Written by Jeffrey M. Sturek, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage – 3 ways long COVID patients' respiration can sufferLung disease can manifest in a number of ways.Mr. Suphachai Praserdumrongchai/iStock via Getty Images Plus

“I just can’t do what I used to anymore.”

As pulmonologists andcritical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19 tell us this even months after their...

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