COVID-19 can cause severe and irreversible lung fibrosis that sometimes progresses to hemmorhagic necrosis of the lungs. One 66-year-old patient needed a double lung transplant after their lungs ended up looking like my mom's overcooked chicken liver.
I made a meme, but people downvoted it into oblivion because they didn't believe it.
The image on the right literally comes from a paper where they biopsied both of the double lung transplant recipient's lungs.
It's not an exaggeration. That's
actually what their lungs looked like. This is the PDF that it's from:
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202002.0407/v3/download
And here's the article on the transplant they received:
China's Zhejiang completes lung transplant for COVID-19 patient - Xinhua | English.news.cn
I am sick and tired of the severity of this situation being downplayed. This shit is no joke.
They had to rip the lungs out of a 66-year-old man's chest and give him lungs from a freshly deceased person because his own lungs were
dead.