People who recover from the coronavirus can still be left with substantially reduced lung functions, doctors in Hong Kong have found after observing the first wave of discharged patients.
The doctors found a drop of 20% to 30% in lung capacity in two or three out of those 12 patients.
“They gasp if they walk a bit more quickly,” said Dr Owen Tsang Tak-yin, according to the South China Morning Post.
While it’s too early to establish long-term effects of the illness, scans of nine patients in the group suggested that recovered patients had sustained organ damage, the Post reported.