It is as if a complete wasp nest has nestled in your lungs. This is how the Longfonds director, Michael Rutgers, describes the experience of a corona patient. You are not just cured, the complaints persist for a long time and may be permanent. Reason for the Lung Fund to create a new disease: CALD, Covid Associated Lung Disorder.
Rutgers tells Trouw that Covid-19 causes so much damage to the lungs that after recovery a number of patients have to learn to live with the consequences. “We are sure that a large, new patient group is approaching us, and we have to pre-sort it, but of course we don’t know a lot either,” he says. “The ultimate long-term consequences of corona for your lungs will only be revealed in the coming years.”
Rutgers first saw the damage on lung photos from Wuhan. “There, for the first time, the lung photos of the corona patients who had endured the virus became public, and I saw the white flakes that indicate scar tissue. They are reminiscent of pulmonary fibrosis that has a different cause. But there was something new going on here. This damage was caused by a proliferating virus. We were actually looking at the birth of a completely new lung disease. ”
Sources): Loyalty (€)
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